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mortgage

[mawr-gij] / ˈmɔr gɪdʒ /
NOUN
loan agreement
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His roommate, the same one he rented with, helps him pay the mortgage.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

The national average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage loan has increased from 6.15% at the end of 2025, according to data compiled by Freddie Mac.

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

Then they came across a relatively niche, and some experts say riskier, type of mortgage that offered a solution.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

A mortgage bond was a claim on the cash flows from a pool of thousands of individual home mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

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

Bassman said a few years ago most mortgages were hovering at low interest rates, with valuations deeply discounted as refinancing looked less likely.

From MarketWatch 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

Buying insurance on a pool of U.S. home mortgages was more complicated, because the pool didn’t default all at once; rather, one homeowner at a time defaulted.

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

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

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

He told me that in Florida, creditors cannot take your home, and the Mosses had mortgaged most everything else they owned, probably to pay their bail bonds and legal fees.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

“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

So the Halos loaded up in an attempt to win the pennant and woo the Japanese pitcher/designated hitter — mortgaging prospects galore for position players such as Eduardo Escobar, Mike Moustakas, C.J.

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 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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