mortgage
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Its monthly mortgage payments cost six times more than Pena's presidential salary, it showed.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Buyers are breaking free from the notions that low mortgage rates and booming prices are right around the corner.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Peter Gill, 48, is one of the around 1.3 million Britons on a variable rate mortgage.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
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
It needed to be able to insure $100 billion in subprime mortgage loans, for instance, without having to disclose to anyone what it had done.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The big losers from a rate rise are those who borrow money, and specifically those on variable rate mortgages.
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
As of the second quarter of 2026, about 66% of all outstanding mortgages had a rate below 5%, according to analysis of federal data by Realtor.com.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Today, adjustable rate mortgages comprise around 5% of active mortgages, and they are less risky because of greater regulation and higher lending standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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Not terribly long ago, Cleveland mortgaged its future believing that Watson was its savior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
As a Paravan and a man with mortgaged body parts, he considered it his duty.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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“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 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
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