This MBA Chart of the Week examines the relationship between mortgage payments and asking rents since the second half of 2009. MBA’s national mortgage payment to rent ratio compares the national median and 25th percentile mortgage payments to the national median asking rent.
Tag: Rent Payments

MBA Chart of the Week Aug. 16 2021–Aggregate Back Rent Owed
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week zeroes in on households who missed rental payments in June. The chart plots a) the distribution of those households by the number of payments they have missed since the onset of the pandemic; and b) an estimate of the aggregate dollar volume of back rent owed by those households.

MBA RIHA Study Shows Progress, but 5 Million Renters, Homeowners Missed December Payments
Five million households did not make their rent or mortgage payments in December, and 2.3 million renters and 1.2 million mortgagors believe they are at risk of eviction or foreclosure or would be forced to move in the next 30 days, according to fourth-quarter research by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America.

MBA Chart of the Week, Sept. 25, 2020–Missed Rent Payments
On September 17, the Research Institute for Housing America, MBA’s think tank, released a special report on housing-related financial distress during the second quarter – the first three months of the pandemic in the U.S.