Tag Archives: Mortgage Debt

Attorneys Thuy Frazier and Cole Patton discuss what happens when a borrower passes away before the underlying mortgage obligation has been satisfied.

Looking ahead, Ventera’s SVP of Financial Solutions publishes new white paper on the forecast for housing defaults.

Click through to find out how much the share of those reportedly cost-burdened grew between 1989 and 2016.

As the amount of money consumers owe on their home grows, is their level of concern rising with it?

How much do millennials owe in housing, and how have increased prices of both housing and college impacted prospective homebuyers?

Mortgage debt is at an all time high, and a new report puts the debt into perspective.

During the same time frame of the household-owned value of the U.S. housing market reaching an all-time high of $26.12 trillion, the share of homeowners with a mortgage is at 62.9%—the lowest level since 2005—according to the Urban Institute.  The ...

Is having debt a good thing? A new study by LendingTree found a correlation between mortgage debt and life expectancy, as higher debt relative to income is linked to higher life expectancy.  “That trend reaffirms the idea that homeownership is ...

Mortgage debt makes up a noticeably smaller share of total consumer debt than it did a decade ago, according to the latest Equifax National Consumer Credit Trends Report, covering data for March 2018. According to the Equifax report, mortgage debt ...

Purchasing a home is unquestionably one of the biggest expenditures most consumers will make in a lifetime. It’s exciting, it’s nerve-wracking, it’s fraught with decisions. And when you finally find the “perfect” space to call your own, it’s also nearly ...