selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great … Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system of the 1920s was not up to the task, and … investigate important unanswered questions to provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and …

view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Combining this with the stories of those involved …

homeowners -- the uniform mortgage instruments that evidence the vast majority of home mortgage loans. As this article will … forms. Part III looks at these uniform mortgage instruments in detail, and compares them to other residential loan documents … and to commercial mortgage loan documents. Part III also considers typical terms of other consumer transactions that are …

almost exclusively on company and not mortgage finance. We identify four different "ideal types" of housing finance systems …-dependent conclusion, noting that the more countries developed bond-based mortgage banks in the nineteenth century, the more they tended …