Today's Mortgage Terms starting with B

Bankruptcy:

A legal procedure in a federal court to relieve certain debts of a person or a business that is no longer able to pay its debts. Chapter 7 bankruptcy removes all debts. Chapter 13 lets a borrower with and income to pay bills off over a set period of time.

Bearer:

The legal owner of a property.

Bill of Sale:

A document that details the transfer of property.

Biweekly Mortgage:

A mortgage with payments due every two weeks, totaling 26 payments a year, two payments more than a mortgage with monthly payments. The two extra payments lowers significantly the interest paid over the life of the mortgage.

Blanket Mortgage:

A mortgage that includes more than one piece of real estate

Borrower (Mortgager):

An individual who makes an application for and receives funds in the form of a loan and is obligated to repay the loan in full under the conditions of the loan.

Broker:

An individual who gets buyers and sellers together and helps in negotiating contracts for a client.

Buy-Down Mortgage:

A mortgage loan with a lower than market rate for a determined period of time.

Buyer’s Market:

Market conditions that favor buyers. When there are more properties for sale than buyers, sellers may be forced to provide price discounts to close the transaction.

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Morton mortgage loan news:

commercial real estate - New York Observer
95 Morton Street. The New York-based real estate private equity firm Brickman has dropped $96.5 million on 95 Morton Street, an eight-story pile of bricks at the corner of Morton and Washington streets. The Fifth Avenue firm signed the deed on Nov ...

Commentary: Nationalize GM - Detroit News
At the moment, D.C. and Detroit are brooding on a Morton's Fork: Watch the American automakers auger in and take hundreds of thousands of jobs with them, or bail out these failed and incorrigible companies whose management so richly deserves whatever ...

Two-bottle limit - Peoria Journal Star
Editor's note: Recently reader George Grisham of Morton wrote to ask if I would consider reprinting a column I wrote 15 years ago, when I was a far younger and more energetic man and the responsibilities of this job were such that they afforded me ...

Nationalize GM - Los Angeles Times
At the moment, D.C. and Detroit are brooding on a Morton's Fork: Watch the American automakers auger in and take hundreds of thousands of jobs with them, or bail out these failed and incorrigible companies whose management so richly deserves whatever ...

When the Downturn Sailed Into Savannah - Star News Online
A container ship passes through Savannah, Ga. The nation’s economic downturn has begun chipping away at expansion and prosperity in this port city, dimming a 20-year boom. Stephen Morton for The New York Times DOZIER COOK founded the construction ...

Matter of Records November 24 - Wichita Falls Times Record News
Target Nat’l Bank vs. Barbra Delany, 5105 Rock Point, $3,073.72, V3307 P44. Midland Funding vs. Tori Richerson, 4408 McCrory, $2,085.75, V3307 P46. Target Nat’l Bank vs. Becky K. Goolsby, 1610 Fillmore, $5,106.50, V3307 P54. Union Square FCU to ...

From the police report... - Spokane Spokesman-Review
State Rep. Geoff Simpson, D-Covington, was arrested Sunday afternon on charges of fourth degree assault and interfering with reporting of domestic violence. He says -- see below -- that the charges are baseless and that he'll be exonerated. In ...

Real-Time News - Newark Star-Ledger
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