2015 HMDA Originations: A Big Jump to $1.85 Trillion

The 2015 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act numbers are now available in LendingPatterns™ and they show a healthy originations volume of $1.85 trillion for the year through 7.4 million loans. That’s up sharply from 2014’s $1.4 trillion in originations through six million...

Fed Gives Outline of 2015 HMDA Data

LendingPatterns™ will very shortly have the 2015 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data in place. But for now, the Federal Reserve has released a broad-brush analysis of the database. The article, by Neil Bhutta and Daniel R. Ringo of the Fed’s Division of Research and...

Los Angeles, New York MSAs Had Most Mortgages in 2014

An interesting way to look at the topic of expensive housing markets is to look for data in LendingPatterns™ on the areas with the most lending. If the largest MSAs by population aren’t matching the top MSAs by numbers of loans, this might be an indication they are...

HMDA Race, Ethnicity Categories Not Set in Stone

Race and ethnicity data are one of the hallmarks of HMDA reporting. But the categories are by no means set in stone. The last major changes came for the 2000 Census, with all government agencies having to implement them by 2003. It is interesting both to wonder when...