MBA Chart of the Week: HELOC and Home Equity Loan Commitment Volume

Dollar volume of open-end home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and closed-end home equity loans originated in 2022 increased 50 percent compared to 2020, driven by home renovation or remodeling, according to MBA’s latest Home Equity Lending Study. This week’s Chart of the Week explores the known reasons that borrowers take out a HELOC or home equity loan, according to participants in our study.

MBA Chart of the Week May 19, 2023: % of IMBs with Pre-Tax Net Income

Today’s Chart of the Week compares the percentage of companies in the QPR that reported positive pre-tax net income including all lines of business (e.g. production and servicing operations), versus the percentage of companies that reported positive pre-tax net income, once servicing operations are excluded.     

MBA Chart of the Week Feb. 24 2023–Delinquency Rates by Credit Type

The latest credit delinquency data from both MBA and other sources indicates that delinquencies are rising.  In MBA’s National Delinquency Survey, covering national and state delinquencies through the fourth quarter revealed that the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one‐to‐four‐unit residential properties rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.96 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of the fourth quarter.

MBA Chart of the Week, Jan. 27, 2023: Monthly Principal, Interest Payments

In the most recent MBA Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI) release, MBA Research introduced a new measure—The Builders’ Purchase Applications Payment Index (BPAPI). While PAPI uses MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey purchase data to calculate mortgage payments, BPAPI uses analogous MBA Builder Applications Survey data to create an index that measures how new mortgage payments vary across time relative to income, with a focus exclusively on newly built single-family homes.

MBA Chart of the Week, Aug. 12, 2022: National Mortgage Delinquency Rate

This week’s MBA Chart of the Week highlights the relationship between MBA’s mortgage delinquency rate and two economic indicators, the unemployment rate, and year-over-year changes in headline inflation – measuring the price of goods and services in the economy.