Today's Mortgage Terms starting with P

Payment Cap:

A limit on the size of the monthly payment of an adjustable-rate mortgage or other variable rate loan.

Point:

A point is equivalent to 1 percent of a mortgage loan. Lenders might charge "origination points" to cover expenses of processing a loan. Some borrowers might pay "discount points" to reduce the loan's interest rate.

Pre-Approval:

The process of calculating how much money a potential homebuyer could borrow.

Prepayment Penalty:

A lender's charge to the borrower for paying down the loan before the end of its term.

Pre-Qualification:

A non-binding process of calculating how much money a potential homebuyer can borrow before applying for a loan. Information submitted during pre-qualification is subject to verification at application.

Principal:

It is the amount of money borrowed or owed, excluding interest.

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ROBERTS: Jackson getting it both ways - The Washington Times
Anyone believing “you can't have it both ways” doesn't know Reverend Jesse Jackson . Jackson has flip-flopped on important issues, finding supposed civil rights justifications on both sides. While politically advantageous to Jackson, the practice ...

The Next Subprime Crisis Looms - FHA-Backed Loans - Free Internet Press
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Local real estate economy - Ukiah Daily Journal
Good time to buy, hard time for loans Worried consumers, investors and home owners are looking at today's economy and pulling back on financial adventures. One of those adventures is real estate, where the risk factor was considered nil just a few ...

Once again, the subprime wolves are on the prowl - WTOL-TV
As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers -- many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis -- are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long ...

November 2008 (25) - Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento-area housing market did it again. Thanks to continually falling prices and a large supply of bank repos, sales held strong in October. That makes it a seventh month in which sales in the region have been stronger than the same time ...

Matter of Record, November 17 - Wichita Falls Times Record News
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Letter from Iceland - Financial Times
Give it a population of 300,000, about the same as Coventry, 70 per cent of them in the cities of Reykjavik and Akureyri. Ensure they are all related and give the majority the ability to trace their ancestry back to the times of settlement, more than ...

Paulson powerless; Pelosi punts - Politico.com
The White House and Democrats pursued competing plans Monday to aid the ailing auto industry. But with Barack Obama on the sidelines, a newly minted $100.3 billion economic stimulus bill appeared doomed in the Senate, even as fresh layoffs and Wall ...

Viewer Stories: Living Paycheck To Paycheck - WSB-TV Atlanta
The economy has caused my employer to cut me to a 3/4 worker, cutting my wages but still putting me above the line to qualify for underemployment. I've spent months searching for a new job without luck. I refuse to look beyond the tri-city area ...

Housing slump deepens as prices drop most in 26 years - Globe and Mail
Silver Standard (America is a welfare queen superpower) from Canada writes: Well guys in a few years I will finally be able to afford a house. I remember earlier this year I was insulted on this forum for saying such a thing. Prices are going to fall ...