mortgage

Aarthi Swaminathan digs into what’s behind the trend and what it means for buyers who do need a mortgage.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Rates for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit 7.4% last month, their highest point in almost three years, before slipping in recent weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The buyer essentially agrees to complete the purchase even if they can’t get a mortgage.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

According to the bank’s figures, mortgage rates have risen by a full percentage point since the start of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The buyer of the first tranche was like the owner of the ground floor in a flood: He got hit with the first wave of mortgage prepayments.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The program would not be funded by taxpayers but instead by the interest charged to borrowers on their down-payment loans, also referred to as second mortgages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

An interest rate tells people and businesses how much it costs to borrow money – such as with credit cards, mortgages, or business loans – but also what return they get for saving cash.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

ARMs comprised a third of all mortgages at points in the mid-2000s, and they accounted for the majority of subprime mortgages during the housing bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Back then, many homeowners were holding adjustable-rate mortgages with payments that were ballooning, meaning that they would soon be facing a much higher mortgage payment that they could not afford.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

The housing blogs of southern California teemed with stories of financial abuses made possible by these so-called thirty-year payment option ARMs, or adjustable-rate 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

After poor ticket sales, producers were reported to have mortgaged property to cover debts.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

One afternoon, Elizabeth listened to a widow named Flora Campbell tearfully explain that, without her consent, her husband had mortgaged the farm that had been in her family for years.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The downside for teams that use this tactic is that if they don’t win, they’re mortgaging their futures for a fruitless present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Currently, the charter prohibits the city from mortgaging city-owned property and prevents it from operating purely commercial or industrial businesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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