2005 and competition among mortgage lenders. The mortgage lending business, especially with the rise of the originate …-to-distribute model, had competitors with very different non-mortgage activities and regulation. I show that in local markets, when banks … increased their share of mortgages relative to lenders such as mortgage brokers, home prices started increasing at a faster pace …

financial crisis - the mortgage credit cycle and the home price cycle. In the viewpoint of mortgage lending, the main demand … (UCC) for owning between 2002-2006. UCC was, in turn, influenced by three key factors - the record low mortgage interest … as a significant shift factor in the demand side. In the supply-side, the main drivers for the boom-bust of mortgage …

-to-value levels and permissive mortgage approvals. We revisit the standard user cost model of housing prices and conclude that the …