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He warns clients in a note that scale is needed to improve overall returns, but expects margin pressures to re-emerge as BOQ starts growing its mortgage book again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That has been reflected in U.K. mortgage rates, which are among the top end of Group of Seven economies in terms of increases, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Harabedian also has authored legislation that requires services to provide mortgage relief to January 2025 fire victims whose homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Landlords complain that evicting tenants who stop paying rent can take months, leaving them to cover mortgage payments and other costs, and that changing rules on renting create legal uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

A mortgage created in early 2005 might have a two-year “fixed” rate of 6 percent that, in 2007, would jump to 11 percent and provoke a wave of defaults.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Home purchases often require all cash, and in countries that do offer mortgages to foreign buyers, be prepared to put up to 50% down and pay higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The bank levy currently charges 0.1% on outstanding short-term loans and 0.05% on longer-dated loans, although mortgages are excluded from the calculation.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Housing-finance giant Fannie Mae, which guarantees about one in four mortgages in America, posted a new forecast expecting the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to average 7.4% in the last three months of this year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

It took decades to build the data, standards and market structure that allowed mortgages to become one of the world’s largest asset classes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

He asked the people most directly involved in the decision to sell credit default swaps on consumer loans what percentage of those loans were subprime mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The other was the son of a farmer who mortgaged his future for his child's education.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Walt Disney mortgaged everything, convinced Snow White would be a hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Put differently, the average mortgaged homeowner now spends more than a full month’s housing payment each year on insurance.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

The couple mortgaged their Hollywood Hills home again and again to finance his films, she said, in an effort to remain independent from the tight reins of Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

But there was no denying that Jefferson had mortgaged his honor to win an election.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“Russia would be further mortgaging its future for the sake of military gains,” said Alexander Kolyandr, a director at the consulting firm Eurasia Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

The cash and perks ICE is dangling will inevitably draw more people, experts said, but some warned that newly minted deportation officers should be careful about mortgaging their future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

Migrants from Africa, Asia and South America are mortgaging their family land, selling their cars or borrowing money from loan sharks to embark on long, often treacherous journeys to reach the United States.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy