Residential Mortgage Markets and the Cost of Mortgage Funds
Early federal housing finance policy appears to have been largely directed at making mortgages more marketable. The creation of FHA, FNMA and FHLMC were designed to homogenize the mortgage instrument and to develop a secondary market for it. Apparently because of a lack of demand for marketability by investors, extensive trading of mortgages has not developed. Nonetheless, the fantastic growth in mortgage pools (as well as the unanticipated growth in FNMA holdings) has increased competition in the supplying of some intermediation functions (mortgage bankers have greatly expanded originations and servicing), has improved interregional flows of mortgage funds, and has given mortgage borrowers a greater access to capital markets generally. The principal result has been a decline in the mortgage rate relative to other market rates, although the inflation-triggered explosion in the demand for mortgage funds in recent years appears to be offsetting the impact of the growth in federal credit broadly defined. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
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1980
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Authors: | Hendershott, Patric H. ; Villani, Kevin E. |
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Real Estate Economics. - American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA. - Vol. 8.1980, 1, p. 50-76
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American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA |
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