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Today's Mortgage Terms starting with M

Margin:

The percentage difference between the index for a specific loan and the interest rate charged. This is a number already set by the lender.

Market Value:

The price at which a given property or product is transacted between a willing, unhurried buyer and a seller who know all the pertinent facts about the property.

Mortgage Banker:

A financial institution who directly funds home loans, sells them to investors, arranges monthly payments and handles escrow. Some mortgage bankers sell their loans on the secondary market.

Mortgage Broker:

A broker arranges financing for borrowers with a variety of lenders. A mortgage broker does not make the loan, but receives payments for its services.

Mortgage Insurance:

It is insurance to protect the lender in case you default on your loan. With conventional loans, mortgage insurance is generally not required if you make a down payment of at least 20% of the home's appraised value. It is also known as PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance).

Mortgage Loan:

A loan for which a specific real estate property serves as collateral to provide for repayment in case of default.

Mortgage Refinance:

A refinanced mortgage is one in which a borrower pays down an old loan with a new loan. People who refinance a mortgage tend do so to get a lower interest rate, lowering their payments or to take cash out of their home equity.

Mortgagee:

The lender in a mortgage loan relationship. Property is used as collateral to make payment.

Mortgagor:

The borrower in a mortgage loan relationship. Property is used as collateral to make payment.

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Yen at 5-week high vs dollar - Daily Times
LONDON: The yen rallied to a five-week high versus the dollar on Tuesday as volatile stock markets reflected continued risk aversion, while investors anticipated dramatic interest rate cuts later in the week. An unexpectedly bold 100 basis point cut ...

Northern Rock defies Brown to raise mortgage rates - Daily Mail
Northern Rock and HSBC defied orders from the Government and the Bank of England yesterday by making their mortgages even more expensive for new customers. Both banks put up their mortgage rates by up to 0.65 points yesterday, three weeks after the 1 ...

Embarrassment for Brown as Northern Rock defies Government to raise ... - Daily Mail
Nationalised bank Northern Rock today announced that it was increasing the cost of a number of its fixed rate mortgage deals. The group is raising rates on its two, three and five-year fixed rate loans by between 0.2% and 0.3%. It said the move was ...

Bush administration ignored mortgage crisis warnings - Rocky Mountain News
Damage from the housing crisis includes this foreclosed house in Denver. By the end of June, a record 9 percent of American homeowners were in foreclosure or behind on their mortgage. The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money ...

The Coming Recession - Reason.com
As this issue of reason goes to press, the dollar is at a record low against the euro, oil is more than $100 a barrel, consumer prices are up 4 percent from a year ago, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is cutting interest rates so often that ...

Gloomy times in battle to end mortgage market crisis - Evening Standard
Britain's mortgage market is in crisis. Sir James Crosby's newly published Treasury report says net mortgage lending has slumped so calamitously that it could turn negative. What that means is more people would be repaying their loans than taking out ...

Fall in house prices slows but mortgage fraud flourishes - Guardian Unlimited
The sharp fall in house prices has slowed this month, Nationwide said yesterday, but experts predict that they still have further to fall. Britain's biggest building society said that prices dropped 0.4% this month and 13.9% over the past 12 months ...

CORRECTED-GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares fall as stimulus weighed, China cuts ... - CNBC
By Veronica Brown LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - World stocks struggled on Wednesday, with European and Japanese markets falling, while the low-yielding Japanese yen rose as investors counted the cost of global fiscal stimulus packages to boost flagging ...

U.K. Mortgage Approvals Match the Lowest Since 1999 (Update1) - Bloomberg
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. mortgage approvals matched the lowest since at least 1999 in October as the financial crisis intensified, prompting banks to hoard money and curb loans. Lenders granted 32,000 loans for house purchase, down from 33,000 in ...

Michigan tries to slow foreclosures - Detroit News
LANSING -- Scrambling to do something about Michigan's rampant home foreclosure problem before the holidays, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers are working on a flurry of bills to ease the squeeze on cash-strapped homeowners. Various measures would ...