Time to be conscious of changing demographics

It is a good idea to study your top markets and familiarize yourself with the changing demographics in those geographies. But especially now, as the data used in market penetration analyses are changing, it would be wise to devote some attention to demographics....

2016 HMDA Shows One Million Jump in Mortgages

The 2016 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data is out! Analyses of it from LendingPatterns™ will be available shortly, but in the meantime I am going to look at the Fed analysis that has just been released on last year’s lending. The Fed report shows 2016 lending volume...

California Is Number One, but Who Is Number Two?

The top state for mortgages last year, this year and every year, is California. But which is the nation’s second state for home loans? Is it Florida, Texas, New York, Illinois? Early look Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) reporters show that as of Sept. 25, it was...

Nearly Half a Million HMDA Mortgages in California

As the fall gets underway I am looking forward to the release of the full 2016 Home Mortgage Data Act (HMDA) report by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. In the meantime, let’s see what Early Look filers will tell us about the biggest mortgage...