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One 2017 NBER study argued that real estate investors (i.e., those owning 2+ homes) were more to blame for the crisis than subprime borrowers: "The rise in mortgage defaults during the crisis was concentrated in the middle of the credit score distribution, and mostly attributable to real estate investors" and that "credit growth between 2001 ...
By July 2008, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, companies which together owned or guaranteed half of the U.S. housing market, verged on collapse; the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 enabled the federal government to seize them on September 7.
Economist Paul Krugman and attorney David Min have argued that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) could not have been primary causes of the bubble/bust in residential real estate because there was a bubble of similar magnitude in commercial real estate in America [71] — the market for hotels, shopping malls and ...
Goldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right now. Sydney Lake. October 11, 2023 at 6:00 PM.
Top economist who called the 2008 housing crash pours cold water on soft landing, pointing to rate hikes and a softening labor market. Paolo Confino. March 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM.
“By the middle of the summer of 2008, both companies looked like, if you mark their books to market, they were underwater,” Lockhart said. A lot of the housing market was underwater. But after ...
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
The most obvious differentiators between the housing crisis of 2008 and today’s housing market are twofold. First, the recession, which coincided with the housing market crash, was.