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Problems and Cases 5. C. Colbert bought an apartment house with $60,000 cash and a mortgage loan of $100,000. The loan was made at an interest rate of 10.5 percent and requires annual payments for 25 years. What are the payments on this loan? Answer: $944.18 7. Your grandmother gives you $10,000 to be invested in one of three opportunities: real estate, bonds, or zero coupon bonds. If you invest the entire $10,000 in one of these opportunities with incomes shown below, which investment offers the highest rate of return? Answer: The zero coupon investment offers the highest rate of return 9. Calculate the present value of the incomes given below assuming interest rates of 8 percent and 20 percent. Answer: Chapter 9 4. The main argument traditionally advanced in favor of zoning is that it protects property values. Do you believe this contention? If so, how does zoning protect property values? If you do not believe the contention, why not? Answer: 1. Zoning protects property values by ensuring that an unwanted land use will not exist in a residential or other non-compatible area. Zoning encourages standardization and minimum requirements that serve to protect property values. However, if a zoning plan conflicts with the natural economic land use pattern, it can cause inefficient distortions in land use. For example, zoning laws may force household services such as grocery stores, delicatessens or hair salons to be excessively distant from residential neighborhoods. (Source: www.uta.edu/faculty/hansz/5311/Ling_Archer/ChapterSolutions.pdf‎) Chapter 11 Case Problem 1 1. The Corgel, Smith, and Ling Development Company has successfully developed three apartment complexes on land owned by Smith before its formation in 1997. Corgel thought it was time for the company to

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