Mortgage Originations Report

The latest Mortgage Originations report for September 2022 from Black Knight with some really good data.

For example, this chart showing that the people that are doing rate and term refinances have significantly worse credit (on average) than those that were doing rate/term refinances in the last few years.

Housing Stock by Year Built and Type

How new/old are typical properties and what kind of properties are they? Chart from MBA.

Commercial/Multi-family Databook

If you’re interested in multi-family and commercial, this is the motherlode report from the Mortgage Bankers Association for Q2, 2022.

Apartment Report

Bill McBride shares some good info on Apartments including this chart.

Renters Most Likely to Move with Rent Increases

Interesting chart showing who is likely to move from an increase in rent by length of residency. Some other interesting charts in the full report.

Is this like 2008?

Not really… at least as measured by how available credit is with the Housing Credit Availability Index.

Housing Finance

Another amazing report of charts for housing finance.

State of the Rental Industry

Download the latest report with some interesting data on landlords and tenants.

Weird Housing Market

Interesting article about weird housing milestones including this chart about affordability.

Home Ownership Versus Interest Rate

Does the homeownership rate increase as rates go down? Not exactly; it is a little more complicated than that.

Rent Growth

Thanks for Lon Welsh for sending me these two charts showing rents growing faster outside city cores.

Enjoy!

Love,

James Orr
The Real Estate Financial Planner™