I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mortgage payment (=a payment towards a loan on your house)
▪ Your mortgage payments could fall if interest rates drop.
a mortgage rate (=the rate charged by a bank on a loan to buy a house)
▪ Higher mortgage rates should slow down the rapid rise in house prices.
foreclose on...mortgage
▪ Building societies may foreclose on a mortgage if payments are not kept up.
mortgage repayments
▪ monthly mortgage repayments of £330
offset mortgage
rent/mortgage/tax arrears
▪ He was ordered to pay rent arrears of £550.
Subprime mortgages (=loans to buy a home)
▪ Subprime mortgages are granted to individuals who would not qualify for a conventional mortgage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adjustable
▪ Consumers will see lower rates on home equity loans and adjustable rate mortgages.
▪ Meanwhile, the average adjustable mortgage rate rose to 5. 48 percent from 5. 45 percent a week earlier.
big
▪ Who would accept a house with such a big first mortgage as collateral?
▪ If so, dig them out now because they could help you get a bigger mortgage.
▪ Abbey National, the second biggest mortgage lender, said claims for their cover must be made within four months.
▪ And this time, more people with high-flying lifestyles and big mortgages to match are among the unemployed.
existing
▪ Parents with an existing mortgage are eligible, so long as they still own a large enough chunk of the equity.
▪ With HeadStart 531 you needn't simply match your existing mortgage.
▪ Packet You'd think that adding £6,000 on to their existing mortgage of £36,000 would cost them a packet.
▪ Similarly, high interest rates may discourage householders from taking on new mortgages, but existing mortgages are unlikely to be reduced.
high
▪ But some warned that the impact of higher mortgage rates on wage negotiations risked increased pressure on prices in the months ahead.
▪ That disparity was due to the high level of mortgage lending at Bankinter.
▪ However, it adds, an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures.
▪ Worst hit will be the South, where people with high mortgages have been most affected by the recession.
▪ They have been encouraged to purchase houses with high mortgages, and they are now desperate and worried.
▪ Mr D'Avila says Labour will help people who're trapped by high mortgages and the property crash.
▪ The currency crisis, with higher mortgages and interest rates, means that consumers have far less disposable income.
▪ They have high mortgage costs, high rents, high transport costs and high bills of many varieties.
large
▪ The smaller rises from the largest two mortgage lenders will deter other societies from following the Yorkshire's move.
▪ It protects lenders and large mortgage investors if the borrower defaults on the mortgage.
▪ With household costs inevitably rising, the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford.
▪ Our largest housing subsidy-the mortgage interest tax deduction-is the equivalent of a voucher.
▪ So the largest mortgage she or he could safely take out would be about £94,000.
▪ He had a baby, a pregnant wife, and a new house in London with a large mortgage.
▪ It is not difficult to see that a smallholding can not support a large mortgage as well as a family!
▪ There was a time when, with babies and a large mortgage we had to do it.
low
▪ But lower mortgage rates for everyone else just push up the price of homes.
▪ Analysts said lower mortgage rates have helped to spur demand for housing even as other parts of the economy have slowed.
▪ Helped along by the lowest mortgage rates in 20 years, those numbers grew during the fourth quarter of last year.
▪ The lower mortgage rates have sparked a surge of refinancing and purchase activity.
▪ Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.
new
▪ Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.
▪ They persuaded investors, such as insurance companies, to buy the new mortgage bonds.
▪ A NEW mortgage deal from Bristol &038; West offers a rate of 8.5% reducing to 6.5% by April 1994.
▪ The thrift could make new mortgage loans at 14 percent while taking in money at 12 percent.
▪ Payment, when approved, is effective from the date of the new mortgage.
▪ While the rest of the firm gradually acquired a new persona, mortgages remained more trenchantly the same.
▪ I don't want to have to take out a new mortgage every time I move up the ladder.
▪ The minimum loan for new mortgages at the fixed rate is £25,000.
■ NOUN
application
▪ The Halifax says that mortgage applications this year are 40% up on 1992.
▪ This is simply not the case and you will probably have to wait to hear if your mortgage application has been approved.
▪ If you so much as parked on a yellow line they stuffed a mortgage application under your windscreen wipers.
▪ Make it compulsory or at least encourage lenders to process mortgage applications within two weeks.
▪ Having the test can have serious implications for insurance and mortgage applications.
arrears
▪ The Harrises were given two weeks to pay off mortgage arrears of £8,000.
▪ The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears.
▪ Three quarters involved unpaid rent or mortgage arrears.
▪ Inequality Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years.
▪ The Future 90 deal is available to borrowers who have £1,000 of county court judgments and three months of mortgage arrears.
▪ This year 75,000 people have lost their homes through mortgage arrears.
▪ To deal with priority debts - rent and mortgage arrears, heating and lighting.
broker
▪ Ray Boulger, of Charcol, the mortgage broker, likes Bristol &038; West's capped rate loan.
▪ Lo, 48, a real estate mortgage broker, faces a bail hearing Wednesday in the fraud case.
▪ If you want to know exactly how much money you could save by remortgaging, an independent mortgage broker can help.
▪ The on-line provider of home financial services and discount mortgage broker acquired Cybersight and its FlyerWare software.
▪ Special deals have become universal, spread by the increasing power of mortgage brokers.
▪ She went to work as a receptionist for a mortgage broker in east Los Angeles.
▪ Not so high profile are the centralised lenders, who operate through mortgage brokers and insurance companies.
company
▪ They now wait to see if the mortgage company Dorend will apply for possession.
▪ The report also outlined the role agricultural cooperatives, the largest creditors to the mortgage companies, played in the fiasco.
▪ Last week the deadline for finding eight thousand pounds to pay back a loan from a mortgage company expired.
▪ As a group, the cooperatives are the largest creditors to the mortgage companies.
▪ It is now possible to rely on the survey that the mortgage company will arrange.
▪ Her mortgage company has twice threatened to foreclose on her north Houston home, which serves as her company headquarters.
▪ The mortgage company had acted with forbearance, only taking them to court as a last resort.
debt
▪ A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes.
▪ Among young homeowners, the mortgage debt typically equals 78 percent of the house value.
▪ The couple's flat in Wandsworth was worth £64,000 against a mortgage debt of £83,000 when the bank gave notice of repossession.
▪ Borrowers were told that policies might not only clear their mortgage debt but might also give them an additional lump sum.
▪ Excluding mortgage debts, the average adult owed £1,000 in 1979 - today, he owes more like £2,250.
▪ People threatened with repossession because of mortgage debts now make up one in seven of their cases.
▪ Job fears and the mortgage debt trap are failing to halt the housing slump.
deed
▪ We would give the same construction to the comparable provisions in the other mortgage deeds.
▪ In the mortgage deed the respondents further covenanted that they would purchase all their requirements from the appellants exclusively.
▪ Accordingly, we would construe the guarantee and debenture in the same way that we have construed the mortgage deeds.
▪ In the Esso case, the restraint in a supply and purchase contract was reinforced in a mortgage deed.
▪ Again, the appropriate mortgage deed will be sewn into the back of the certificate.
department
▪ The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
▪ Even Larry Stein, whom Smith had introduced to the mortgage department, quit in disgust.
▪ Next to the rest of the firm, however, the mortgage department looked like the United Nations.
▪ Mark Smith, Voute and Strauss's man in the mortgage department, took note.
▪ Up to the point of his transfer to the mortgage department, Ranieri had dominated every department he had joined.
▪ They had been invited to address the thrifts by the mortgage department.
▪ The mortgage department became a white brotherhood apart.
endowment
▪ Loan secured by endowment mortgage, minimum age 20 years.
▪ The Bristol &038; West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
▪ And the Financial Ombudsman Service this week published a briefing note for firms handling endowment mortgage complaints.
▪ I know that's the general idea of an endowment mortgage.
▪ Pension Mortgage Similar to an endowment mortgage in that you pay interest only to the lender.
home
▪ Lower interest rates, for example, spur car loans and home mortgages.
▪ Nevertheless, in I978 on Wall Street it was flaky to think that home mortgages could be big business.
▪ The CE0s of home mortgages were savings and loan presidents.
▪ Forbes would keep it pure, getting rid of the home mortgage, medical expense and charitable deductions and everything else.
▪ These so-called always deductible expenses usually consist of home mortgage interest and real estate taxes.
▪ Federally insured thrifts that traditionally had limited their investments to home mortgages began bingeing on highly speculative investments.
▪ But his plan calls for a 16 percent tax on income that would retain deductions for home mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
interest
▪ Home ownership is our dominant way of living, so most of us are buying, selling or paying mortgage interest.
▪ The mortgage interest deduction, for example, subsidizes home ownership, as does the deduction for property taxes.
▪ Less than a decade ago, no Tory minister dared threaten the tax break on mortgage interest.
▪ Forbes would eliminate all loopholes, including the popular mortgage interest deduction aimed at encouraging home ownership.
▪ These totals exclude mortgage interest and disregarded income, for example, attendance allowance.
▪ Still, concern about home-buying is why Alexander charges that eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would cause a real-estate crash.
▪ Aside from those who can pay cash, ability to pay is an amalgam of income and mortgage interest rates.
▪ Our largest housing subsidy-the mortgage interest tax deduction-is the equivalent of a voucher.
lender
▪ Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.
▪ Shares in the mortgage lender vaulted 3 to 122.
▪ The smaller rises from the largest two mortgage lenders will deter other societies from following the Yorkshire's move.
▪ The market was given a boost by falling interest rates and growing competition by mortgage lenders.
▪ If you are having difficulty making your repayments, always seek help from your mortgage lender before matters get too out of hand.
▪ Abbey National, the second biggest mortgage lender, said claims for their cover must be made within four months.
▪ The following pages of Charts are designed to help you select a mortgage lender.
loan
▪ As Table 4.1 shows, over 80 percent of building society assets consist of mortgage loans for the purchase of property.
▪ Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed by homeowners across the country alleging mortgage loan fraud.
▪ Building societies' major assets are mortgage loans.
▪ To take advantage of it, however, the thrifts had to sell their mortgage loans.
▪ The wife and kids, the mortgage loan, the car payments.
▪ Loan counselors using the Internet assist in selecting the right mortgage loan.
▪ Bit IFAs can also arrange mortgage loans through the high-street lenders.
▪ It has $ 42 billion in outstanding mortgage loans among 502, 000 families in metropolitan Los Angeles.
market
▪ The mortgage market is awash with great money-saving deals as lenders compete fiercely to attract borrowers.
▪ It was invented in June 1983, but not until 1986 did it dominate the mortgage market.
▪ Of course, the mortgage market today is neither so generous nor so vague.
▪ With his appointment in mid-I978, the story of the mortgage market as it is conventionally told within Salomon Brothers commences.
▪ The mortgage market has become a more competitive arena in the years since the early 1980s.
▪ But whole loans were ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the entire mortgage market.
▪ These constraints arise from the non-existence of a perfect annuity market and the nonexistence of perfect rental and mortgage markets.
▪ The executive committee members of Salomon Brothers decided the mortgage market was bad news.
payment
▪ The premium is usually paid monthly to the Society along with your mortgage payment.
▪ Well, I hope I can chip in on the mortgage payments.
▪ Q Thank you for your interesting article on mortgage payment calculations.
▪ Your goal should be to charge enough rent to cover the mortgage payment, maintenance and other expenses.
▪ This may, for instance, be in the form of an endowment policy or a mortgage payment protection plan.
▪ Instead of making a mortgage payment monthly, make half a payment every two weeks.
▪ Are school fees provided for, and mortgage payments?
▪ Maybe this Local did make mortgage payments.
rate
▪ Firstly, the cost of fixed-#rate mortgages can be a little higher than that of a variable deal.
▪ Consumers will see lower rates on home equity loans and adjustable rate mortgages.
▪ The other option is a capped-#rate mortgage which can provide the best of both worlds.
▪ Her $ 621 fixed rate mortgage is almost $ 200 less than her old monthly rent.
▪ Borrowers with standard variable rate mortgages could make substantial savings by remortgaging their properties, mortgage experts say.
▪ Unlike most fixed-#rate mortgages, it allows borrowers to pay off the loan and move home at any time.
▪ With standard variable rate mortgages, lenders can be quite slow to cut their rates.
▪ Undoubtedly, a fixed rate mortgage would also appeal to Linda's cautious nature.
repayment
▪ Just like a repayment mortgage, the interest rates can change, and this will affect your monthly payment.
▪ The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.
▪ Assuming a standard loan rate of 14.75 percent, a typical £60,000 repayment mortgage would cost £669.77 per month.
▪ After your second or third mortgage, you may feel ready to branch out from the standard endowment or repayment mortgage.
▪ But there are drawbacks to the repayment mortgage.
▪ It's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage.
security
▪ Crisscrossing the country, trying to persuade institutional investors to buy mortgage securities, Ranieri bumped into Milken.
▪ They wheeled in the rocket scientists, who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
▪ Those early repayments, or prepayments, cut short the lives of mortgage securities and can reduce their returns.
▪ Yet by the middle of 1986 First Boston could boast about the same market share in mortgage securities as Salomon Brothers.
▪ Though the conditions of supply had changed overnight in October 1981, the conditions of demand for mortgage securities had not.
▪ Dall established himself as the Salomon Brothers authority on mortgage securities in September I977.
▪ Congress gave him permission to sell his mortgage securities in every state, but to his more radical proposition it said no.
▪ He remembered the way the old boss, Bill Simon, had treated the first mortgage securities.
tax
▪ However, he blew cold again on home loan borrowers by reducing the rate of mortgage tax relief by five full points.
▪ The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief.
▪ We will maintain mortgage tax relief.
▪ A rise of 1 percent in interest rates adds £400-500 million annually to the cost of mortgage tax relief.
■ VERB
back
▪ Banks are issuing a stream of securities backed by mortgages, credit-card receivables and other assets stripped off their balance sheets.
▪ If asset-#backed loans such as mortgages are included, that coverage jumps to 128. 4 percent.
buy
▪ Buyers stopped buying as mortgages were so expensive.
▪ Crisscrossing the country, trying to persuade institutional investors to buy mortgage securities, Ranieri bumped into Milken.
▪ Lenders typically require you to buy mortgage insurance, if you put down less than 20 percent on a home.
▪ They persuaded investors, such as insurance companies, to buy the new mortgage bonds.
▪ That explains why thrifts continued to buy mortgage bonds even as they sold their loans.
cover
▪ If she could get the same amount for her flat, then that would cover the mortgage.
▪ Your goal should be to charge enough rent to cover the mortgage payment, maintenance and other expenses.
▪ One company which has stopped covering mortgage payments is Cornhill, which supplied mortgage policies to lenders Lloyds Bank.
fall
▪ Under an informal family arrangement they paid the mortgage instalments falling due under the local authority mortgage.
▪ Buying a home could become more expensive, some economists say, even though housing prices and mortgage rates would fall.
▪ The advantage is that whenever interest rates go down, your mortgage payments will automatically fall.
▪ Fifteen-year mortgage rates fell to 6. 53 percent, down from 6. 59 percent in the prior week.
▪ The underlying rate, which excludes mortgages, fell 0.2 percent to 3.8 percent - the lowest for four years.
▪ The instruments are a hedge against decreases in mortgage servicing fees as borrowers prepay their mortgages when rates fall.
fix
▪ Firstly, the cost of fixed-rate mortgages can be a little higher than that of a variable deal.
▪ Her $ 621 fixed rate mortgage is almost $ 200 less than her old monthly rent.
▪ Unlike most fixed-rate mortgages, it allows borrowers to pay off the loan and move home at any time.
▪ With luck, market forces will make this switch from short-term to fixed-rate mortgages.
help
▪ The following pages of Charts are designed to help you select a mortgage lender.
▪ Lower fed rates help keep mortgage rates low.
keep
▪ Schemes vary, but usually you keep on your mortgage by holding back a nominal amount, say £1.
▪ Lower fed rates help keep mortgage rates low.
▪ You'd also still have to keep up mortgage payments, even though you were paying out on your new house as well.
▪ Engelstad said lenders are urged to work with borrowers who are serious about keeping the mortgage.
▪ Somehow, he manages to keep up with mortgage payments of $ 24, 000 a month on his Rockingham Avenue estate.
obtain
▪ It may be that you choose to obtain a mortgage, second mortgage or a loan from a bank.
▪ Nine people have been charged with conspiring to obtain mortgage advances by deception from various building societies.
▪ The precise timing will depend on the convenience of one's clients and the need to obtain a mortgage advance cheque.
▪ Home income schemes involved using funds obtained via a mortgage to be re-invested to pay off the loan and provide additional income.
▪ A surveyor wrote a report the size of a small book, and they had difficulty in obtaining a mortgage.
▪ Customers used a touch screen to obtain information on mortgages, pensions and investments.
offer
▪ By itself offering you a mortgage.
▪ Under the reorganization plan, El Paso Electric will repay creditors using proceeds from an underwritten public offering of mortgage bonds.
▪ Some have gone even further and are offering free mortgage protection insurance for new borrowers.
▪ Estate agents also offer a mortgage service.
▪ Not so long ago lenders were falling over each other to offer mortgages.
▪ But they may be offered a self-certified mortgage instead.
pay
▪ You are a suitable candidate for remortgaging if you are one of the many millions who pay the standard variable mortgage rate.
▪ But paying down your mortgage leaves less money, so establish a home equity line of credit first.
▪ A housewife has asked us if she should pay off her mortgage now, while she can still afford to do so.
▪ She no longer talked of needing funds to support herself or to pay off the mortgage on a ranch somewhere in Texas.
▪ Under an informal family arrangement they paid the mortgage instalments falling due under the local authority mortgage.
▪ Of course, they were the perfect homeowners who never missed a payment, and ultimately paid off the mortgage.
▪ Are you happy to be helping to pay another person's mortgage?
▪ Mortgage savings Homeowners could save the money they pay for unnecessary private mortgage insurance under legislation passed by the Senate Banking Committee.
raise
▪ The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.
▪ The sale of his flat should raise, once the mortgage was repaid, something in the region of £20,000.
▪ For such clients raising a second mortgage to pay off the credit card debt often seems the only answer.
▪ If the bigger societies feel their savings are threatened they would raise their mortgage rates to compete.
▪ To pay for this he raised a mortgage of £500 on his house.
repay
▪ Red letter customers need to witness investment returns greater than 8 per cent to stand any chance of repaying their mortgage.
▪ This is an insurance that repays the mortgage in full should the person paying the mortgage die.
▪ Every pound you repay on your mortgage offers a guaranteed rate of return of 11.5 per cent.
▪ The most tax efficient way of repaying a mortgage is the pension mortgage.
▪ The figure you place in the final column is how much you can afford to spend repaying a mortgage every month.
sell
▪ Home ownership is our dominant way of living, so most of us are buying, selling or paying mortgage interest.
▪ Then Ranieri persuaded the firm to give him a sales force to sell the godforsaken mortgages he was being asked to trade.
▪ Eleven days ago, the second largest lender, the Abbey National, stopped selling mortgage protection insurance to its existing borrowers.
▪ To take advantage of it, however, the thrifts had to sell their mortgage loans.
▪ You are paid to sell mortgages!
▪ Congress gave him permission to sell his mortgage securities in every state, but to his more radical proposition it said no.
▪ Investors typically sell mortgage bonds as rates decline because they fear low rates will prompt homeowners to refinance.
take
▪ In March, Day announced he had taken out a second mortgage to pay back some of the money.
▪ Even the most wealthy moguls and healthy corporations will take out loans or mortgages to finance homes and equipment.
▪ It is usual when taking out a mortgage to arrange adequate insurance cover in the event of death.
▪ He took out a second mortgage, and off they went.
▪ It is like taking out a mortgage: we have to repay the loan many times over.
▪ They took out a mortgage without telling the older couple.
▪ I don't want to have to take out a new mortgage every time I move up the ladder.
▪ Most repossessions take place within the first three years of taking out a mortgage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anyone taking out a mortgage should be aware that interest rates can go up at any time.
▪ It took my parents nearly thirty years to pay off their mortgage.
▪ Nick told me the mortgage on his apartment is worth about $90,000.
▪ The mortgage payment will be around six hundred dollars a month.
▪ The bank says we have to buy a life insurance policy before we can get a mortgage.
▪ We still have a $180,000 mortgage on the house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abbey National offer self-build mortgages, which can either be straight repayments or endowment or pension linked.
▪ Employees who are not at present house-owners may be entitled to a mortgage allowance in certain exceptional circumstances.
▪ If asset-backed loans such as mortgages are included, that coverage jumps to 128. 4 percent.
▪ Make it compulsory or at least encourage lenders to process mortgage applications within two weeks.
▪ Remember the mortgage itself isn't a debt, and so the compensation scheme doesn't apply.
▪ The mortgage department had neither friends nor profits.
▪ The thrifts paid a fee to have their mortgages guaranteed.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
future
▪ But, in practice, if allowed to get out of hand, it firmly mortgaged the future.
▪ There's a pool of talent in this area most employers can draw from without mortgaging their financial future, Miller said.
rate
▪ Leading lenders were last night warning they may not be able to pass on any further rate reductions to mortgage holders.
▪ More likely, interest rates fell, and the entire neighborhood refinanced its thirty-year fixed rate mortgages at the lower rates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We mortgaged our house to start Paul's business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It borrowed so heavily that the greater part of its peacetime revenue was mortgaged to service and repay its debt.
▪ Should you mortgage the family home?