These home loans are falling out of favor, but they could still work for disciplined borrowers.

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Timing can be everything when it comes to prepaying a mortgage, says Dr. Don Taylor.

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LONDON — U.K. mortgage lender Halifax said Tuesday that house prices in the country rebounded 1.3% in December following three months of successive declines.

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WASHINGTON — Investment professionals’ “shortsightedness” led them to make fundamental errors that led to the mortgage crisis and credit meltdown, St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole said Wednesday.

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BOSTON — Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com, says interest rates on home loans have fallen by roughly half a percentage point since Christmas as lenders have taken a dour outlook on the economy and projected it forward.

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For much of the last decade, the process of bundling commercial or residential real estate loans, slicing them into bonds, then selling the bonds…

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