Any website gives the % of ARM mortgage vs. regular mortgage?

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Happy Hopping, Jun 10, 2023.

  1. in other words, out of 100% of all USA mortgage, how many % is ARM?
     
  2. M.W.

    M.W.

    I don't have a figure for the total outstanding. But in 2021 arms accounted for 2% of all applications while now they account for 9% (by count) and 13% (by dollar volume) of all applications. I am not sure what the percentages are for outstanding mortgages.

    Higher benchmark rates attract more arm contracts as the initial locked rate is lower than the one on a 30-fixed contract.

     
  3. first of all. thanks for the reply. Now I have a more interesting question: what's the % of ARM out of all USA just BEFORE the Financial Crisis back in 2007 / 2008?
     
  4. RantaMin

    RantaMin

    In the years leading up to the Financial Crisis in 2007-2008, the percentage of Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) out of all mortgages in the United States peaked at around 36% in 2005 and reached approximately 38% in 2006.
     
  5. M.W.

    M.W.

    Is that a chatgpt answer? If not you should definitely apply to openai as a reviewer or feedback provider, individuals the model requires...

    Regardless, 36% for 2005/2006 sounds unreasonably high, do you have a source for that?

     
  6. RantaMin

    RantaMin

    Thanks for the advice)
    Find here:
    https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/current_issues/ci16-8.pdf
    Сited the source to:
    Federal Home Finance Agency, Monthly Interest Rate Survey
     
  7. thanks for the information. Google said we are at 9% right now. So you guys think regional bank should be okay at 9% ARM?
     
  8. update: I just remember back in 2006, from that movie the Big Shorts, an exotic dancer can own 6 houses under ARM. So we are talking about 36% of ARM, where ea. owner can own 6 houses.

    Now we are at 9% ARM, so how is the lending std. in USA in the past few years? Can an exotic dancer own more than 1 house nowadays?
     
  9. TheDawn

    TheDawn

  10. TheDawn

    TheDawn

    Not because of ARM but due to mortgage fraud and using inflated appraised market value to approve mortgages that otherwise shouldn't have been approved.
     
    #10     Jun 11, 2023