mortgage
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Kevin and Alissa Kashani had a third child after moving to Florida, where a good education doesn’t require paying tuition or taking on a prohibitive mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The land records show he obtained a $640,000 mortgage for it.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
The typical U.S. home-sale price rose 2.2% year-over-year, while the average weekly mortgage rate was 6.66%, near its highest level in the last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
We have heard accounts from homeowners who bought outright, often with a mortgage, as well as those who purchased through shared-ownership schemes.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Now he had to explain that they had to subtract from that number these…subprime mortgage bond insurance premiums.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Paxton’s report omitted listing as assets seven properties worth about $5.2 million collectively, including the Utah condos for which he did not disclose mortgages.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Most mortgages are still under 7%, but we are getting close to hitting the number,” Michael Read, principal at Bridgeway Mortgage and Real Estate Services in Morristown, N.J., told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
That’s because interest rates on mortgages, student loans, and corporate and municipal bonds are tied to long-dated Treasurys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Rising rates mean higher costs for home mortgages, car loans and credit card balances, increasing the strain on household budgets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
People with first mortgages had vast amounts of equity locked up in their houses; why shouldn’t this untapped equity, too, be securitized?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The other was the son of a farmer who mortgaged his future for his child's education.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
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
When Mammachi arrived in the kitchen, in her petticoat and pale pink dressing gown with rickrack edging, Vellya Paapen climbed up the kitchen steps and offered her his mortgaged eye.
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
He’s a strong candidate for a team that wants a front-end starter without mortgaging the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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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