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Mortgage rates on 30-year loans rise to 5.01 percent

Mortgage rates in the U.S. rose for the first time in five weeks, threatening to slow the housing market's recovery as government incentives close expiration.

Pastors, churches indicted in mortgage fraud scheme

Attorney General Beau Biden announced that Jamaar Manlove Townsend; Larry Manlove, Bear; Jamaar's wife, Rhonda Manlove; Master Builders for Christ, Middletown; and Vision Builders Christian middle, Bear have been charged in a 21-count indictment for crimes related to a mortgage rescue scam.

Kiwibank cuts variable mortgage rate

State-owned Kiwibank is cutting its variable mortgage rate by 14 basis points to 5.65 percent and hiking its 18 month fixed rate by 10 basis points to 6.49 percent.

Mortgage brokers seek trusting relationship with planners

Mortgage brokers will increasingly look to join with financial planners as their industries converge.

Mortgage rates rise slightly

Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages rose slightly this week, inching over 5 percent, Freddie Mac said Thursday. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.01 percent this week, up from 4.98 percent last week.

Getting a mortgage: your questions answered

Richard Morea of mortgage brokers London & Country answers readers questions about getting a mortgage.

Kiwibank cuts mortgage rates

State-owned Kiwibank has clip its variable mortgage rate by 14 basis points (bps) to 5.65 per cent, making it the second lowest bank variable rate behind BNZ's headline Total Money rate of 5.59 per cent.At the same time, Kiwibank...

New mortgage company Web site

A new nationwide database shines a little more light on the mortgage industry.

Database details mortgage lenders

SPRINGFIELD - Prospective mortgage borrowers can now turn the tables and check out the financial and employment backgrounds of the people who want to give them the loan.

Mortgage giants GSEs in limbo: In housing, a dangerous policy vacuum grows.

THERE IS NO END in sight to the federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal said as much in a few phrases that promised nothing more definitive than continued "monitoring" of the two mortgage giants, which have been operating since mid-2008 in the...

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A mortgage is the transfer of an interest in property (or the equivalent in law - a charge) to a lender as a security for a debt - usually a loan of money. While a mortgage in itself is not a debt, it is the lender's security for a debt. It is a transfer of an interest in land (or the equivalent) from the owner to the mortgage lender, on the condition that this interest will be returned to the owner when the terms of the mortgage have been satisfied or performed. In other words, the mortgage is a security for the loan that the lender makes to the borrower. This comes from the Old French 'dead pledge,' apparently meaning that the pledge ends (dies) either when the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure. In most jurisdictions mortgages are strongly associated with loans secured on real estate rather than on other property (such as ships) and in some jurisdictions only land may be mortgaged. A mortgage is the standard method by which individuals and businesses can purchase real estate without the need to pay the full value immediately from their own resources. See mortgage loan for residential mortgage lending, and commercial mortgage for lending against commercial property.