Call it the great real-estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages have declined most weeks during the past three months, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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MARIETTA - More than one in four Americans now has a FICO credit score below 600, which is considered low, and could have difficulty getting credit cards, car loans and mortgages. Statistics released from FICO Inc. show that 2.

The ratio of debt — in consumer credit and mortgages — to net worth edged up during the quarter to 20.9 cents of debt for every dollar of net worth and to $1.27 of debt for every dollar of disposable income.

Among the 20 biggest U.S. metro areas, Dallas trails only Seattle in average consumer debt, according to Experian. Dallas-area consumers in March carried average debt of $26,599 excluding mortgages, compared with a national average of $24,775.