Can you afford that house? Use Google's mortgage calculator to find out if you can swing the monthly payment. Matt Elliott Senior Editor Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops ...

Typically, most mortgages are 30-year mortgages, but you can choose between several term lengths to decide which loan term is ...

As mystifying as mortgage shopping may feel, it used to be even more confusing. To help consumers better understand the details included in a mortgage lender's loan offer, loan estimates were ...

If you’re in the homebuying process, or you’re applying to refinance your mortgage, you’ll come across a document called a loan estimate. This document is required to be disclosed by lenders after you ...

A mortgage loan estimate is a standard three-page document detailing the estimated costs, structure and other terms of a loan. Mortgage lenders are required by law to provide borrowers with a loan ...

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How much is this mortgage going to cost me? How much would the closing costs be for this mortgage? And how do the closing costs compare with other loan offers? You'll find the answers to those and ...

MBA’s new monthly index tracks what homebuyers can afford based on application data. The MBA’s new Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI) measures how new monthly mortgage payments vary across ...