Your debt-to-income ratio (DTI) is the amount of your debt payments relative to your income. Lenders use this metric to determine whether to approve you for a loan. The lower your DTI, the better your ...

Mortgage balances rose by $137 billion in Q3 from Q2, and by $482 billion YoY, to $13.1 trillion, according to the Household Debt and Credit Report from the New York Fed, based on Equifax credit ...