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...agency — they have come up against the harsh reality of higher mortgage rates and the bursting of the work-from-home bubble....
...At the end of 2023, about 70 per cent of mortgage holders had rates more than 3 percentage points below the market rate....
...So new homebuyers are grappling with higher mortgage rates, high home prices and a lack of homes to buy....
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...I’d be mortgage free, if I owned just one home. And my costs of living would be drastically reduced, too. But where’s the fun in that?...
...Also in the group is Manuel Sánchez Rodriguez, a former top executive at Spanish bank BBVA and a board member, since 2018, of the US government-backed mortgage insurance company Fannie Mae....
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