mortgage

The chart above shows that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has risen from about 3% five years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He purchased the building on 23rd Street, according to public records, in the 1970s, taking out a $150,000 mortgage on the property at an 8 percent interest rate.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed to 6.95% over the past week, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But he is aware there is a greater risk of falling into negative equity with a no- or low-deposit mortgage.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“I didn’t expect fundamental deterioration in the underlying mortgage pools to hit critical levels for a couple years,” he said—when the teaser rates would vanish and monthly payments would skyrocket.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Covered bonds are debt securities issued by financial institutions and are backed by a pool of assets such as mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The one-year LPR influences most corporate and household loans, while the five-year rate is a benchmark for mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Many in the second cohort had mortgages with relatively high interest rates and then ended up in foreclosure, said Jeffrey Zabel, one of the authors of the paper.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

"If inflation proves sticky, lenders' funding costs stay under pressure, which makes cheaper mortgages harder to deliver," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

On March 19 his salesman at Citigroup sent him, for the first time, serious analysis on a pool of mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Not terribly long ago, Cleveland mortgaged its future believing that Watson was its savior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

Suzy Spilling and her husband Colin invested in four rental properties to fund their retirement - including two flats in Salford "mortgaged to the hilt".

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

As a Paravan and a man with mortgaged body parts, he considered it his duty.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“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

He’s a strong candidate for a team that wants a front-end starter without mortgaging the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

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