The following material provides some useful links for scholars researching housing characteristics, foreclosures and mortgages.
| Source | Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Data Sources | ||
| Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) | Provides a variety of reports required by mortgage disclosure regulations. Disaggregation into loan types and federal program types are available. | Click the "Reports" link on the navigation toolbar to see a variety of report types. The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act section provides quantitative information on mortgages for Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), provided as PDFs. |
| HUD User | Contains research and data about housing and related government initiatives | See the "Data Sets" section for survey information, Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) information and current federal housing policy |
| National Delinquency Survey (Mortgage Banker Association, via DataStream) | Provides quarterly delinquency and foreclosure statistics at the national, regional and state levels. Loan types and degrees of delinquency are disaggregated. | Can only be accessed through DataStream at the Ford Library |
| U.S. Credit Conditions (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | A variety of mortgage indicators and household debt and credit statistics by state and county. Also provides external links to economic data sources. Limited time series data. | Use the provided web application to explore the data graphically. Data can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets. Each tab provides a different type of information. |
| Information Sources | ||
| Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HDMA) | Informational resource for home mortgage regulation and gateway to statistical information | See the FFIEC site to obtain data |
| Realtor.org Research site | Provides recent market analysis, reports and some statistical information | From the main page, click the "Research" tab to the right. Some statistics are available, see individual reports for availability. |
