Donald Trump is floating a simple answer to a very real housing problem: stretch the standard 30-year mortgage to 50 years so monthly payments come down. On the surface it sounds like exactly what ...

Longer home loans would offer monthly savings but exorbitant total costs. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of NerdWallet, but this does not influence ...

The interest rate on a 50-year mortgage would be higher than it would be on a 30-year mortgage. And you'd be making payments for many, many more years. Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. One of the biggest problems with the long-term, 30-year mortgage is that ...

Mortgage rates moved modestly lower this week, but interest rates were not the big news for anyone following home loans. President Donald Trump’s social media post about a 50-year mortgage stole the ...

Mortgage rates moved modestly lower this week, but interest rates were not the big news for anyone following home loans. President Donald Trump's social media post about a 50-year mortgage stole the ...