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mortgage

[mawr-gij] / ˈmɔr gɪdʒ /
NOUN
loan agreement
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He said the weakening wasn’t surprising given the latest increase in fixed mortgage rates and with the Bank of Canada potentially raising interest rates before the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It requires mortgage lenders that hold insurance proceeds during rebuilding to pay at least 2% annual simple interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Landlords complain that evicting tenants who stop paying rent can take months, leaving them to cover mortgage payments and other costs, and that changing rules on renting create legal uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

I began my career as a mortgage trader when the mortgage-backed securities market was still young.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The mortgage bonds created from subprime home loans extended the logic invented to address the problem of early repayment to cope with the problem of no repayment at all.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Home purchases often require all cash, and in countries that do offer mortgages to foreign buyers, be prepared to put up to 50% down and pay higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The bank levy currently charges 0.1% on outstanding short-term loans and 0.05% on longer-dated loans, although mortgages are excluded from the calculation.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

For example, higher rates mean fewer new mortgages, which translates into less demand for facilities where clients park loans before securitizing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

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

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

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

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

She mortgaged her property and borrowed money from a neighbor for her journey.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

“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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