Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are … institutional framework that governs mortgage lending lead to information loss in appraisals (that is, appraisals set equal to the … incidence of mortgage default at loan-to-value boundaries (notches) above which mortgage insurance rates increase. Appraisals …

time-to-sell determines the mortgage standards of competitive lenders, measured by the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio …

mortgage crisis, which, in contrast to the preceding housing boom, was not accompanied by a rise in homeownership rates. Using … declines in the homeownership rates …

Ten years after the mortgage crisis, the U.S. housing market has rebounded significantly with house prices now near the … peak achieved during the boom. Homeownership rates, on the other hand, have continued to decline. We reconcile the two … homeownership rates between 2007 and 2014. We further demonstrate that institutional investors contributed to the improvement in the …