UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 8-K


CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 17, 2011

United Development Funding IV
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

         
Maryland
 
333-152760 (1933 Act)
 
26-2775282
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

1301 Municipal Way, Suite 100, Grapevine, Texas
76051
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)

(214) 370-8960
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

None
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)


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Item 1.01   Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Effective February 17, 2011, United Development Funding IV (“UDF IV”) entered into a Loan Agreement providing for a maximum $9,910,792 loan (the “Loan”) to be made to HLL Land Acquisitions of Texas, L.P., a Texas limited partnership (“Borrower”).  The Loan is secured by (i) a first priority lien deed of trust to be recorded against 91 finished residential lots, 190 partially developed residential lots and residual undeveloped land located in the residential subdivision of Hidden Meadows, Harris County, Texas, (ii) the assignment of lot sale contracts providing for sales of finished residential lots to a builder, and (iii) the assignment of development reimbursables owing from a water district to the Borrower.

The interest rate under the Loan is the lower of 13% or the highest rate allowed by law.  The Loan matures and becomes due and payable in full on January 21, 2015.  The Loan provides Borrower with an interest reserve, pursuant to which UDF IV will fund Borrower’s monthly interest payments and add the payments to the outstanding principal balance of the Loan.  In connection with the Loan, Borrower agreed to pay a $99,108 origination fee to UDF IV, which was charged to Borrower and funded by UDF IV at the closing of the Loan.

The Loan is guaranteed by United Development Funding, L.P. (“UDF”), the parent of Borrower.  UMTH General Services, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“UMTH GS”), is UDF IV’s advisor and is responsible for managing UDF IV’s affairs on a day-to-day basis. UMTH GS has engaged UMTH Land Development, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“UMTH LD”), as UDF IV’s asset manager.  UMTH LD is also the asset manager for UDF and the Borrower.  UMTH LD has organized an Investment Committee with the principal function of overseeing the investment and finance activities of the United Development Funding programs managed and advised by UDF IV’s advisor and UMTH LD.  The investment and finance activities of UDF IV, UDF and the Borrower are overseen by UMTH LD.



FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 under Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements through our use of words such as "may," "will," "can" "anticipate," "assume," "should," "indicate," "would," "believe," "contemplate," "expect," "seek," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "point to," "project," "predict," "could," "intend," "target," "potential," and other similar words and expressions of the future. Forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, future economic, competitive and market conditions, regulatory framework, and future business decisions, and the other factors referenced in our Prospectus and our periodic reports filed with the SEC, which contains a list of specific risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by our forward-looking statements made in this Current Report on Form 8-K.
 
 



 
 

 

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


         
 
United Development Funding IV
 
 
       
 
     
Dated: February  23, 2011 
By:  
/s/ Hollis M. Greenlaw
 
   
Hollis M. Greenlaw
 
   
Chief Executive Officer