mortgage

If you are convinced that mortgage rates, currently around 6.7%, are going to collapse again, you don’t have to buy a home to benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

In that period she worked for a mortgage brokerage company called OLG Financial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It helped that, from 1982 to 2021, the rate on a 30-year mortgage collapsed from a peak of 18% to less than 3%.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

That might prevent U.S. mortgage rates from climbing more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The party on the other side of his bet against subprime mortgage bonds was the triple-A-rated insurance company AIG—American International Group, Inc. Or, rather, a unit of AIG called AIG FP.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

When Bessent helped George Soros break the pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, he reckoned that the country’s floating-rate mortgages made it politically painful for Britain to raise interest rates to prop it up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

A sample of FHA mortgages recently reviewed by the Housing and Urban Development Department found 76% contained a defect, up from 67% in late 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

By pushing up the cost of borrowing for things such as mortgages, loans and credit cards, central bankers hope consumers will spend less and the rate of price increases will slow.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

That was for mortgages with conforming balances of $832,750 or less.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

He ran Morgan Stanley’s asset-backed bond trading, which effectively put him in charge of the firm’s bets on subprime mortgages.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Walt Disney mortgaged everything, convinced Snow White would be a hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

Peter White, defending, said Callaghan had put his gas engineering business, which employs three people, and the mortgaged home he shares with his partner and nine-month-old daughter at risk.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

She did not sell the house but she mortgaged it for every penny she could get.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

The Ford contract would reverse 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