mortgage

Bailey said the central bank has effectively tightened policy relative to expectations, which is reflected in rising U.K. mortgage rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Linda Yaccarino, the former chief executive of Elon Musk’s X, is joining the board of Better.com as the digital mortgage lender looks for stability following a messy and expensive proxy fight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

Whoever sold him a credit default swap on a subprime mortgage bond would one day owe him a great deal of money.

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

Anyone who even glanced at the prospectuses could see that there were many critical differences between one triple-B bond and the next—the percentage of interest-only loans contained in their underlying pool of mortgages, for example.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

A bit more examination reveals that Rory’s heavily mortgaged ancestral manse is ripe for foreclosure, so the shrewd Birdie and a few new acquaintances step in with an unorthodox plan to stop such proceedings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

To raise the money for the $100 million-plus production, he mortgaged his seaside Santa Barbara, California, estate.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

“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