Too Much Skin-in-the-Game?: The Effect of Mortgage Market Concentration on Credit and House Prices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deeksha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
Market Concentration ◽  
Mortgage Market

Too Much Skin-in-the-Game? The Effect of Mortgage Market Concentration on Credit and House Prices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deeksha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Market Concentration ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Sponsored Enterprises

Abstract In 2007, as American housing markets started to decline, the government-sponsored enterprises dramatically increased their acquisitions of low FICO and high loan-to-value mortgages. By 2008, the agencies had reversed course by decreasing their high-risk acquisitions. I develop a theory in which large lenders temporarily increase high-risk activity at the end of a boom. In the model, lenders with many outstanding mortgages have incentives to extend risky credit to prop up house prices. The increase in house prices lessens the losses they make on their outstanding portfolio of mortgages. As the bust continues, lenders slowly wind down their mortgage exposure.

New Mortgage Lenders and the Housing Market*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikodem Szumilo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Mortgage Lending ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
The Real Estate Market

Abstract This article examines the effect of a new lender’s entry into a local mortgage market on the supply of new loans, housing prices and repossessions in areas around its branches. I use the decision of the European Commission to force the UK’s largest retail bank to divest a part of its business as a shock to the entry of a new lender, and show that incumbent banks increase mortgage lending in areas where the new bank has its branches. Furthermore, house prices increase by around 5% in the real estate market impacted by the shock. Average transaction numbers and mortgage repossession rates also increase in places where the new bank enters. Overall, my results show that increased competition in the banking market can have adverse consequences for risk-taking and financial stability.

scholarly journals Mortgage volume and macroeconomic factors: Evidence from Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1504-1520
Author(s):  
Tuğba Güneş ◽  
Ayşen Apaydın
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Mortgage Loan ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Mortgage Loans ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Mortgage Interest ◽  
Mortgage Interest Rates ◽  
Turkish Lira

This paper investigates the impacts of several macroeconomic variables on Turkey's volume of mortgage loans. Johansen cointegration test, vector error correction model, Granger causality tests, variance decomposition, and impulse-response analysis is employed for the econometric analysis to show short and long-run relationships between the variables using time series monthly data from January 2010 to March 2020. Paper results demonstrate that growth of housing credit size negatively correlates with mortgage interest rates, US Dollar/Turkish Lira exchange rate and level of real estate supply. At the same time, there is a positive correlation with house prices. Causal relationships between mortgage volume and macroeconomic indicators are bidirectional for all variables, except for mortgage interest rates. There is a one-way causality relationship from mortgage rates to mortgage loan volume. Econometric analyses show that the recent steep depreciation in the Turkish Lira hurts the Turkish mortgage market. In conclusion, a stable economic environment is essential to build a robust mortgage market.

The Rise in Mortgage Defaults

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mayer ◽  
Karen Pence ◽  
Shane M Sherlund
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Mortgage Defaults

The first hints of trouble in the mortgage market surfaced in mid-2005, and conditions subsequently began to deteriorate rapidly. Mortgage defaults and delinquencies are particularly concentrated among borrowers whose mortgages are classified as “subprime” or “near-prime.” The main factors underlying the rise in mortgage defaults appear to be declines in house prices and deteriorated underwriting standards, in particular an increase in loan-to-value ratios and in the share of mortgages with little or no documentation of income. Contrary to popular perception, the growth in unconventional mortgages products, such as those with prepayment penalties, interest-only periods, and teaser interest rates, does not appear to be a significant factor in defaults through mid-2008 because borrowers who had problems with these products could refinance into different mortgages. However, as markets realized the extent of the poor underwriting, underwriting standards tightened and borrowers began to face difficulties refinancing; this dynamic suggests that these unconventional products could pose problems going forward.

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