mortgage

Elena was spending $3,000 renting a one-bedroom apartment in San Diego, but she now owns a three-bedroom home, with a mortgage of $1,868.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The 10-year Treasury yield crossed a key 5% threshold on Monday, nudging the average 30-year mortgage rate upward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

High borrowing costs are expected to dampen home-buying demand further, as people may find their monthly mortgage payments too expensive to afford, particularly as other housing costs, such as homeowners-insurance premiums, increase.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

In Portland she was paying rent of $1,290 a month for an apartment, while the combined cost of her mortgage, home insurance and property tax for her detached home in Muncie is $1,100.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

A subprime mortgage lender called Aames Financial went public, and no one at Oppenheimer particularly cared to express an opinion about it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

There are fewer people sitting on ultracheap mortgages than you might think.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

This means the risk of mortgages getting prepaid either much faster or much more slowly is once again a major consideration for investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

By pushing up the cost of borrowing for things such as mortgages and credit cards, they seek to slow consumer spending and inflation.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Nevertheless, for households in the 21-nation euro area, another hike will still mean pricier mortgages, consumer credit and other loans.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The housing blogs of southern California teemed with stories of financial abuses made possible by these so-called thirty-year payment option ARMs, or adjustable-rate mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Overindebted railroad builders and heavily mortgaged farmers demanded a less rigorous, more forgiving silver unit, and debate raged between the adherents of “soft” and “hard” money—between silver and gold, inflation and solidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

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

“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

Baker noted that Spirit recently raised $419 million by mortgaging many of its planes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 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