There is a term in the world of mortgages that more and more people are becoming familiar with. That term is “Jumbo Mortgages,” and is exactly as the name implies. These are mortgages that were originally intended for luxury homes and estates much like the typical family couldn’t afford, however with the boom of the real estate industry in the mid 2000’s giving way to higher prices for homes, more and more people needed to start using these types of mortgages to be able to buy homes.