More Than 6,000 Lenders Made Mortgages to Women in 2014

I went looking in LendingPatterns™ to see how many women-owned banks and thrifts there were in 2014 and came up with—none. But there are more than 6,000 lenders that made loans to women in that year. Women (either alone, as primary applicant, or two women together)...

Some Surprises in HMDA Lending to Minorities

In an earlier blog I looked at Home Mortgage Disclosure Act volume by minority-owned institutions in 2014. For this one I have tapped LendingPatterns™ to analyze mortgages made to minorities in that year, and a couple of surprising things emerge. The one that caught...

Some Surprises in Lending in the New York MSA

The New York City metropolitan statistical area is the biggest MSA in the country, with more than 20 million people residing there as of July 1, 2015, according to the Census Bureau. What does lending look like in this enormous MSA, as illuminated by 2014 Home...