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The Basics of Gifted Deposit Mortgages
With housing affordability at an all time low, mortgage lenders and property developers have invented various schemes available to help people get a foot on the property ladder without requiring a large deposit. …

Low Take-up of Current Account Mortgages
Flexible mortgage products such as current account mortgages have not been as popular as first expected despite their many benefits to borrowers.

Help! My Mortgage Payments are Killing Me!
Hello Paul, We can not longer make our mortgage payments. Thanks to a Thanks to a corrupt mortgage broker we end up with a 9.5 in the first loan and a 12.5 in the second loan. We have good credit scores. Our payments are extremely high. …

FIXED RATE MORTGAGES MORE EXPENSIVE THIS WEEK
Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), on the other hand, were lower this week, as the five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid ARM dipped to an average 6.15 percent from 6.21 percent a week ago, while the rate on one-year Treasury-indexed ARMs …

Surprise: "Toxic" Mortgages Are the Best (BusinessWeek)
Surprise: “Toxic” Mortgages Are the Best (BusinessWeek) A new study by professors from Columbia and NYU states that the “optimal” mortgage in a perfect world is an option ARM.

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Can These Mortgages Be Saved? (New York Times)
Lenders and government officials contend that troubled borrowers are being helped to stay in their homes. But neither data nor anecdotal evidence supports this view.

Defaults on Insured Mortgages Advance 30 Percent (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Defaults on privately insured U.S. mortgages climbed 30 percent last month from year-earlier levels, an industry trade group reported, adding to evidence that home foreclosures may continue to rise.

Fixed-rate mortgages rise; adjustables drop (Boston Globe)
WASHINGTON - Rates on 30-year mortgages rose for a second straight week, a sharp rebound after hitting a four-month low.

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