Eye On Housing
Consumer credit outstanding grew by a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.6%, $126.5 billion, in the month of January 2016, 3.7 percentage points slower than the 7.3% rate of growth recorded in December 2015. Consumer credit outstanding now totals $3.544 trillion. According to the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Credit Report, the increase in total consumer credit outstanding reflected an expansion in the… Read More ›
According the Federal Reserve Bank of New York the outstanding amount of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) was the only debt category to record a decrease in the third quarter of 2015. Home equity lines of credit are an important source of financing for home remodeling projects. Over the quarter, the outstanding amount of HELOCs fell by 1.4%, $7… Read More ›
According to a report by the Mortgage Bankers’ Association the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on 1-4 unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.30% of all loans outstanding at the end of the second quarter of 2015, 24 basis points less than its level in the first quarter of 2015 and 74 basis points below its level one… Read More ›
Data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that aggregate consumer debt fell by 0.2%, $18 billion, between the first and second quarter of 2014. Overall, consumer debt still remains 8.2% below the peak of $12.7 trillion reached in the third quarter of 2008. As Figure 1 illustrates, housing-related debt accounted for the decline in total household… Read More ›
Data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that aggregate consumer debt increased in the fourth quarter of 2013 by 2.1%, or $241 billion, from its level in the third quarter of 2013. According to the release, household debt now totals $11.5 trillion. This is the largest quarter-over-quarter increase seen since the third quarter of 2007. Over… Read More ›
In its January release, which generally covers the fourth quarter of 2012, the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey documented answers by senior bank officers on their outlook for loan quality in 2013. On net, which is the difference between the percent of respondents expecting an improvement in loan quality and the share of respondents expecting weaker loan quality, senior bank… Read More ›