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You want to purchase an office building in Brooklyn. The property contains 27,500 square feet of rentable space and is currently occupied by multiple tenants each with differing maturities on their respective leases. No lease is currently shorter than 1 year. The annual rent in the 1st year of ownership is $42.50/sq ft. The vacancy rate is 6.5%. You expect to incur collection losses (from tenant default) on 1.5% of the square feet during your first year.

You decide you want to take out a loan to finance the purchase of this property. It will be an IO loan at a rate of 6.25%, compounded annually, with annual payments. The lender will provide financing up to a minimum Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) of 1.2 based off of the 1st year NOI. What is the largest loan a lender is willing to provide you with based on the largest payment the bank would allow? (Assume this is an IO loan at 6.25%) ? State your answer as a number rounded to the nearest cent (e.g. if you get $13.57654, write 13.58)



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To calculate the largest loan amount a lender is willing to provide based on the largest payment allowed, we need to determine the Net Operating Income (NOI) for the first year and then use the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) formula.

First, let's calculate the NOI: Rentable space = 27,500 square feet Rent per square foot =    Vacancy rate    Collection loss rate   
Total rental income = Rentable space * Rent per square foot * (1 - Vacancy rate - Collection loss rate)
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