U.S. mortgage holders carried a record $17.6 trillion in home equity entering the second quarter--with $11.5 trillion considered “tappable”--according to ICE Mortgage Technology, Atlanta.

Cotality, Irvine, Calif., released its Loan Performance Indicators, finding that delinquencies were flat in March on an annual basis.

Single-family construction registered modest gains in small metros and declines in large metros while apartment growth is shifting to counties with lower population densities, the National Association of Home Builders' Home Building Geography Index reported.