Mortgage
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Real Estate
What is a ‘Zombie Mortgage’?
Has your mortgage come back from the dead? It probably wasn’t really gone, it was likely just hiding.
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Business
A Way to Beat High Mortgage Rates? Take Over Someone Else’s Loan.
Assumable mortgages — or low-rate mortgages that home buyers can take over from home sellers — are making a comeback. The process can be challenging.
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World
The Case for Letting Mortgages Move With Us
What if you could move to a new home but keep the mortgage that you took out on the old one, with the same balance, interest rate and time remaining? You would probably be more willing to move. That would benefit both sellers and buyers. At the ...
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Business
A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages
Buying a home was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Prices, already sky-high, have gotten even higher, up nearly 40 percent over the past three years. Available homes have gotten scarcer: Listings are down nearly 20 percent ...
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World
The Fed Has Put Our Housing Market in Jeopardy
The Federal Reserve’s relentless attack on inflation is jeopardizing our housing market. The resulting damage is not only having an impact on a critical engine of economic growth but is also, ironically, undermining the war against inflation as well ...
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Real Estate
Trying for a Mortgage? Here’s How Much Money You Need to Make.
Qualifying incomes for standard mortgages on typical homes have gone through the roof. Especially in California.
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Business
A Higher Monthly Payment, but Less Square Footage
Homebuilders are responding to rising interest rates with an innovation: a small house in the traditionally spacious exurbs.
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Business
Why Britain’s Mortgage Holders Are Being Squeezed
The Bank of England’s campaign to curb inflation is pushing up monthly payments for millions of homeowners.
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Business
Mortgage Fees (Seriously) Spurred Outrage on TikTok. Here’s Why.
Changes to fees applied to federal mortgages have led to a misconception that borrowers with low credit scores will pay less at the expense of borrowers with good credit.
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Real Estate
Renting Rather Than Buying? Here’s Where You’ll Save the Most.
Although renting is still cheaper than paying a mortgage in most U.S. metro areas, the gap between the two is fluctuating.
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