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Interest Only Mortgage offers consumers a wide assortment of mortgage programs including refinance, home equity loans, debt consolidation, and new home purchase loans. Each of these loans have different options for you to choose from.


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40-year mortgage poor solution to lack of affordable housing
a higher percentage of all new mortgages. In recent months, interest-only mortgages have begun to fall out of favor. The 40-year, fixed-rate mortgage is the industry's substitute
 
Refinancing into an interest-only mortgage
Replacing $20,000 in debt with $20,000 in mortgage debt isn't getting you out of debt; it's just restructuring your debts. Replace credit card debt with interest-only mortgage debt, and you're postponing repaying that debt as well, so it's keeping you in debt longer.
 
Foreclosure trend may mask trouble
percent rise in monthly payments for those holding interest-only mortgages, said loanperformance vice president Bob Visini. Realistically, Visini said most of those homeowners will
 
Top Mistakes of Home Buyers and Sellers in 2005
Many home-hungry buyers discovered the only way you can pay top-of-market prices is to get an interest-only mortgage. With declining prices and no monthly principal payments, these homebuyers could fuel a foreclosure market in 2006.
 
NAR Welcomes Federal Guidelines on Specialty Mortgages
the proposed guidelines on non-traditional mortgages, such as interest-only mortgage loans where borrowers pay no principal for the first few years of the loan and payment-option
 
Real Estate Reality: Affordable Homes
1,600-square-foot townhouse. The couple pays an interest-only mortgage, cutting the bill to $2,100. "The financing is getting a lot more creative," Serrano said. Using traditional
 
Interest-only mortgage?
for many adults as well. Are there situations where an interest-only mortgage would be wise? Rarely. It might be suitable for the medical resident who has a solid shot at much
 
Not too late to refinance, but do it carefully
they make home ownership affordable. If you have a $200,000 interest-only mortgage at 5.25 percent, you'll pay $875 per month on your loan. But if rates rise just 1.25 percent, to
 
HBA Upset Over Homeowner Tax-Break Proposal
up to $350,000. So, if you're paying on an "interest only mortgage" and the value of your house drops, you will likely be upside down on the mortgage. "People struggling to buy
 
Adjustable Rate Mortgage 101
time. Other forms of mortgage loan include interest only mortgage, fixed rate mortgage, Negative amortization mortgage, discounted rate mortgage and balloon payment mortgage.
 
Is `interest only' mortgage smart?
There are pros and cons. If you expect to stay in your home less than five years, an interest-only mortgage keeps your monthly payments at fully tax-deductible rock-bottom. You won't be paying down the principal balance but, if you will be selling in five years, who cares?
 
Know the Terms when Buying a Home
To explain it another way, she said, "In `heated' real estate markets there is great interest in interest-only mortgages, but also concern that if the bottom falls out, (buyers) are still left with debt obligations and ... (houses) may be difficult to resell."
 
Mortgage options can help or hurt
The hottest home-loan product at the moment is an interest-only mortgage, which allows you to get a bigger loan and more house.
 
Popularity and Pitfalls of Piggyback Loans
loans. GMAC, on the other hand, devised a new interest-only mortgage. “The greatest risk would come from a housing market recession,” says independent researcher Charles A. Calhoun
 
Study of finances necessary to pick right mortgage
"There is no such thing as an interest-only mortgage because eventually you’ll have to pay the loan principal as well."
 
Good old 30-year mortgages are back in style
Conventional 30-year mortgages fell out of favor last year as home buyers seeking to reduce their monthly payments opted for adjustable-rate and interest-only mortgages.
 
The 40-year mortgage, for years a niche product, is about to become mainstream.
Third, interest-only mortgages have exploded in popularity in the last two years, and they offer even lower initial monthly payments than 40-year loans.
 
Fannie Mae to expand purchases of 40-year mortgages
homeownership more affordable, including adjustable-rate mortgages and interest-only mortgages, that have been much more popular. But 40-year fixed-rate loans could have more
 
Interest-Only Mortgages, Playing the Equity Game
much more house? And how it makes sense to get an interest-only mortgage, because just imagine the equity you'll have in another five years, when you'll want to do this again. And
 
Interest Only Home Mortgage Loans Now Available with First Guarantee Mortgage...
program consumers now have the option to consider an interest only mortgage loan to free up money for these needs.” David Regan White – Director of Marketing Interest Only
 





What are people saying about mortgages today:

An explosion in overdue mortgages tailored to home buyers with less-than-sterling credit has driven foreclosure filings to record highs in Massachusetts.

Freddie Mac, the second-biggest buyer of U.S. mortgages, plans to toughen its standards and stop buying certain types of risky loans that have been linked to a high number of defaults.

General Motors Corp., the world's largest automaker, may take a charge of almost $1 billion to cover bad mortgage loans made by its former home-lending unit, according to a Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. analyst.