Mortgage

Mortgage rates hit another all-time low on Friday for most lenders. Other lenders had slightly lower rates yesterday morning.  Since then however, almost every lender has moved up from […]

Existing home sales finally took a breather in November, breaking a five month stretch of gains, often substantial ones. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said that […]

Since the 1990s, developments in technology and regulation have transformed the US mortgage market. Lenders have become more sophisticated both in terms of underwriting credit and […]

Q My wife, son and I have decided to up sticks from east London in order to try out my home town of Belfast on a […]

The former is the gold standard as it includes every sale but, because it is based on the date of entry, it lags the Nationwide index […]

Those who have a history of struggling to keep up with debt repayments are about 50 per cent more likely to have got further into debt […]

After falling moderately to start the week, mortgage rates put in a calmer performance on Tuesday.  As we discussed yesterday, volatility in the bond market results in lenders making changes […]

The Urban Institute (UI) estimates that there are about 400,000 homeowners who have become “needlessly delinquent” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  UI analysts Michael Neal and […]

A dozen years after the crash, 4,700 homeowners are ten years or more behind on their mortgage repayments. With the pandemic set to push overall mortgage […]