The Complete Consumer Library of Mortgage Statistics
The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 sent the American housing market into a tailspin. New construction all but ground to a halt, and the market for existing homes was at its lowest point in recent history. As hundreds of thousands of families watched the equity in their homes slip away, the demand for new mortgages dropped to a staggeringly low number. It’s been a long slow struggle back, but the US economy is finally making a welcome recovery. New constructions are on the rise, the real estate market is on the rebound, and more and more consumers are applying for new mortgages. Proof of the recovery, if proof were needed, can be found in the annual mortgage statistics that are collated by both the government and other independent research firms.
The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 had a much more muted impact on real estate prices than the popping of the prior housing bubble as politicians and central bankers acted much faster and much more aggressively to counteract the economic slowdown. As a matter of fact, Fannie Mae predicted 2020 would be a record year for residential mortgage originations across the United States. (more…)