Mortgage refinancing activity slows to a crawl
The refinancing wave that swept the nation when mortgage rates hit historic lows last year is petering out, leaving behind millions of homeowners who could Mortgage-calculator not qualify for the best rates.

Mortgage borrowers urged to consider new deals
Increasing SVRs and falling cost of fixed-rate loans could be good news for those on variable rates Now could be the right time for mortgage borrowers who are paying their lender’s standard variable rate to remortgage to a fixed or tracker loan , after a flurry of new home loans hit the market. In the past two years, many mortgage borrowers who have come to the end of a fixed or tracker deal …

NY mortgage plan leaving owners hanging
There’s more bad news for financially strapped New York homeowners. An ambitious, year-old mortgage-modification program implemented by judges in a Manhattan bankruptcy court has produced the same underwhelming results as President Obama’s national mortgage plan, lawyers and officials familiar with the program told The Post. The Bankruptcy Loss…