mortgage

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

Some buyers who have deep pockets will waive the mortgage contingency and present an all-cash offer using money in their bank account or in a trust.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Do you have a mortgage, a credit card, a car finance agreement?

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

That would be a boon for home builders who have seen buyer interest plummet as mortgage rates have surged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Once again they shocked and delighted him: Goldman Sachs e-mailed him a great long list of crappy mortgage bonds to choose from.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It is painful for those on variable mortgages, but should not be seen as the start of a cycle of hikes.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

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

Just 22.5% of mortgages had a rate of 6% or higher, they company noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

The “consumer loan” piles that Wall Street firms, led by Goldman Sachs, asked AIG FP to insure went from being 2 percent subprime mortgages to being 95 percent 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

To finance “I Am Frankelda,” Roy and Arturo mortgaged two homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

She did not sell the house but she mortgaged it for every penny she could get.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

The group’s longtime leader, Carol Schatz, told the City Council at a public hearing that the city was mortgaging its future in a “misguided attempt to buy temporary peace with activists.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Many private equity firms have quietly begun mortgaging their investment funds, piling leverage upon leverage.

From New York Times ● May 11, 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