There were one million fewer mortgages originated in 2017 compared to 2016, according to new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data released by the Federal Financial Institution Examination Council and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The annual HMDA data is traditionally released in September for the previous year. But this year, the FFIEC and CFPB released “snapshot-level” data on 2017 originations to make the information available to the public sooner, and will update the data as needed later in the year.
The 2017 HMDA data tracked information on 12.1 million home loan applications, which resulted in 7.3 million loan originations, 2.1 million in purchased loans, and a total of over 14.1 million actions, according to the FFIEC. The data also includes information on about 481,000 preapproval requests for purchase mortgages.
Notably, for 2017, the volume of reporting institutions dropped 13% to 5,852 institutions compared to the previous year. This was most likely driven by changes to Regulation C, which altered guidelines on which depository institutions were required to report.
Also prevalent in the data were insights on borrowers of different racial backgrounds. Both purchase and refinance loans made to black borrowers grew in 2017, while refinance mortgages for Asian borrowers fell 1.5 percentage points. However, minorities saw greater denial rates overall for conventional home purchase loans.
By product type, the share of Federal Housing Administration loans for home purchases plummeted, part of an overall decline in the government-mortgage share of purchase volume.
From falling originations to market share shifts for nonbanks and government loans, here’s a look at eight key findings from the new HMDA dataset.
source: https://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/slideshow/8-mortgage-facts-revealed-in-the-latest-hmda-data
