Money Matters Presentation
You Payoff Old Loan
Money Matters

After you close the real estate loan at , a balance still remains on the old real estate loan at . Of course, and want to payoff this loan.

will take the money out of your account to assure the loan gets paid. If has an account with (banks have accounts with other banks, referred to as "correspondent" accounts), it will make the transfer to that bank by notifying them and reducing their deposit balance with .

The entries follow this sequence:

Your Bank

  1. Debits your account $50,000 (reducing the bank's liability and reducing the quantity of money).
  2. Credits 's account with (a ) $50,000 (reducing the asset).

Other Bank

  1. Debits 's account with (a ) $50,000 (increasing the asset).
  2. Credits your $50,000 at (reducing the asset).

You

  1. Credit for $50,000 to reflect the money withdrew to payoff the old real estate loan.
  2. Debit for $50,000 to reflect the retirement of that obligation to .

 

With one double entry transaction at each of three entities (, , and ), your old real estate loan gets paid and the quantity of money declines by $50,000.

As a net result of these two transactions (your new $250,000 real estate loan that creates money and the $50,000 payoff of your old real estate loan that reduces money) and have created $200,000 (net) in new money.

Seems complicated, but if you follow the entries, you will find it simple.

Note: In many cases the transfer of $50,000 would go through the Federal Reserve Bank. I will cover such a transfer later.

These entries show the part of the process that you can see.

But, what goes on behind the loan.
What sets the limits on how much a bank can lend?