81. Mortgage lenders often require prospective homeowners to buy a life policy before they can get a mortgage. 82. Mortgage lenders put pools of loans in partnerships to isolate the assets from a potential bankruptcy by the sponsoring financial institution. 83. Mortgage lenders received fewer loan applications than they have in about eight months as a jump in interest rates discouraged consumers from applying. 84. Mortgage lenders say they received more loan applications last week as U.S. interest rates fell. 85. Mortgage lenders, though, held back from raising the cost of home loans immediately. 86. Mortgage payments also increased in December after a Bank of England rate increase in November, as most mortgage lenders increased their lending rates. 87. Mortgage-banking revenue was up from a year ago, helped by the purchase last year of BancPlus Financial Corp., a mortgage lender. 88. Much of the nervousness came from one earnings report, from a home mortgage lender called The Money Store, which said overdue loans rose sharply. 89. Most property owners or even mortgage lenders will repay the taxes because the value of the asset is usually far greater than the taxes owed. 90. Mortgage lenders and homebuyers seem to already have anticipated that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates at its monthly meeting today and tomorrow. |