both primary and secondary mortgage market problems in the U.S. are accepted as the essential reasons of the current crisis … importance of real estate valuation in the origination of crisis and whether Turkish mortgage market has similar problems with …

decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth … housing sector in times of high LTV ratios, which, through changes in mortgage lending and mortgage equity withdrawals (MEWs …

We document the portfolio activity of federal housing agencies and provide evidence on its impact on mortgage markets … in agency mortgage holdings. Based on those regulatory events that we classify as unrelated to short-run cyclical or … credit market shocks, we find that an increase in mortgage purchases by the agencies boosts mortgage lending, in particular …