mortgage
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Did your husband contribute to mortgage payments, taxes, insurance or maintenance?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Bisignano overhauled the mortgage staff, doubled the number of borrower-assistance centers and helped launch a coalition of companies committed to hiring veterans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Ultimately, the cost of a mortgage may depend on what the markets think of Burnham, and his new chancellor's plans.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Taking a 6.6% 30-year mortgage would be the better choice than withdrawing $500,000 from a traditional IRA all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The subprime mortgage loans being made in early 2005 were, he felt, almost certain to go bad.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The resumption of hostilities has helped drive the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note—which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to student loans—back near its highest levels of the year around 4.7%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Thompson said his home fell into foreclosure after he took out second and third mortgages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The housing package contains nearly 60 provisions intended to boost supply, reduce regulatory barriers and improve access to mortgages and home ownership.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Jumbo loans are mortgages that are larger than limits set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
That is, a lot of people couldn’t actually afford to pay their mortgages the old-fashioned way, and so the lenders were dreaming up new instruments to justify handing them new money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
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 stared straight ahead with his mortgaged eye.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
But she stuck to her guns, mortgaging her house to finance the project — and it seems to have paid off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Many private equity firms have quietly begun mortgaging their investment funds, piling leverage upon leverage.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2024
The agreement reverses concessions the union agreed to in a series of contracts since 2007, when GM and the former Chrysler were skidding toward bankruptcy, and Ford was mortgaging assets to stay afloat.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023
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
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