Archive for May, 2009

FHA Mortgage

sep 23 2009 marketing chiq montes

The FHA Mortgage is a mortgage guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), an agency of the United States government whose purpose is to help less financially-secure citizens purchase their own homes. FHA mortgages are designed for people who might not otherwise be in a position to obtain a mortgage from commercial institutions. Reasons for [...]

Fixed Rate Mortgage

sep 23 2009 marketing chiq montes

Fixed rate mortgages are mortgages in which the mortgage holder pays a constant rate of interest, either for the entire duration of the mortgage or for a period of some years within it. Most mortgages are adjustable rate mortgages, meaning that the interest rate the mortgage-holder pays over time is not constant but changes in [...]

History of Mortgages

sep 23 2009 marketing chiq montes

Mortgages are an age-old institution which originally encapsulated a much simpler transaction: one in which the owner of a property transferred it to another with the expectation that the transferee would be able to make payment only after a time through the proceeds of working on the land that had been transferred. Clearly, the institution [...]