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From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

PulteGroup’s PHM -1.43%decrease; down pointing triangle third-quarter net income and revenue fell sharply as elevated mortgage rates slowed sales of its luxury homes and weighed on prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Am I being foolish to want to pay off a 2.75% mortgage?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

My compromise suggestion was to pay off the mortgage with $300,000, keep $100,000 as an emergency fund, and continue contributing to our retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Lehman Brothers thought that was such a great idea that they bought B&C mortgage.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Goldman Sachs estimates that more than 65% of borrowers locked-in mortgages at least two percentage points cheaper than today’s levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

This is causing central banks to hike their own benchmark rates, heaping pressure on businesses and individuals holding loans, including mortgages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

That increase in the market cost of US government borrowing also puts upward pressure on the interest rates on mortgages available to American households.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Housing-finance giant Fannie Mae, which guarantees about one in four mortgages in America, posted a new forecast expecting the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to average 7.4% in the last three months of this year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The implications of turning home mortgages into bonds were mind-bogglingly vast.

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

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

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

But there was no denying that Jefferson had mortgaged his honor to win an election.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“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

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