Subordinate Financing


Definition of "Subordinate Financing"

Christine Downing-Hughes
  Keller Williams / Exemplary Real Estate

A second mortgage on a property that is not paid off when the first
mortgage is refinanced. The second mortgage lender must allow subordination of the second to the new
first mortgage.



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