On the House: Presidential hopefuls and the mortgages they keep

You can't tell the 2016 presidential hopefuls without a scorecard, but thanks to the Loan Depot, we know something about their houses and how much their mortgages are.

I can't do them all in this space, so if anyone thinks I've slighted their favorite hopeful, email me and I'll send you the list.

Jeb and Columba Bush live in Coral Gables, in a 3,485-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath townhouse purchased in August 2011 for $1.3 million. Its assessed value in 2014 was $1.1 million. In July 2013, public records show, they refinanced their mortgage to a 30-year conventional loan for $754,000.

Hillary and Bill Clinton own a five-bedroom, four-bathroom 5,232 square-foot Colonial in Chappaqua, N.Y., purchased for $1.7 million in 1999, with an adjustable-rate mortgage of $1.41 million.

Their 5,152 square-foot D.C. home, with four bedrooms, six bathrooms and two half-baths, was purchased in 2001 for $2.85 million, with $2 million of it financed with a 30-year adjustable-rate mortgage at 7.25 percent.

It was paid off in 2007.

Ted and Heidi Cruz live in a two-bedroom, two and one-half bath luxury high-rise condominium with 19th-floor views of Houston built in 2003.

They bought it for $837,500 in September 2008 and financed $670,000 of it with a conventional, 30-year adjustable-rate mortgage.

In March 2011, public records show, they refinanced $417,000 to a 15-year fixed.

Rand and Kelley Paul live in a four-bedroom, three-bath, 4,206-square-foot home in Bowling Green, Ky., built in 1994.

Its total value was assessed at $525,000 in 2014 with a land value of $257,500.

In July 2014, they took out a 10-year conventional mortgage on the property for $172,500.


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