Article: The next credit crisis: U.S. home equity loans Lenders take harder line as losses rise

Article: Technology Helps Fuel 28% Increase In Home Equity Loans At Navy Fed.(Navy Federal Credit Union)
Credit Union Journal;  March 7, 2005 ;     560 words ......billion in home equity loans this year, 28...rates for first mortgages are helping to...1.8 billion in equity loans last year, he...rates for first mortgages from recent 40-ye...they compete with equity loans, he said. Homeowners...refinance first mortgages or ...

Article: As Refis Flagged, Banks and Thrifts Stocked Up on Home Equity Loans.
American Banker;  November 16, 1999 ;     681 words ......their holdings of home equity loans 26%, to $176.5 billion...portfolios of second mortgages and home equity lines...originations (of home equity loans) are flat, the portfolios...count first-lien home equity loans -- cases where the homeowner...

Article: Use of equity loans to pay debt doubles. (University of Michigan's Survey Research Center report) (Brief Article)
American Banker;  June 30, 1994 ;     423 words ...The use of home equity loans to consolidate debt has...the homeowners with home equity loans used the funds to consolidate...from 49% in 1988. Home equity loans, typically closed-end lump-s...holders also had second mortgages or home equity lines of...tax-deferred status, ...

Article: Home Equity Loans Complicate Mortgage Assistance
NPR All Things Considered;  June 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ......These days, most mortgages in the U.S. are...big bundles of mortgages so that they could...homeowners. But home equity loans are a different...loans: the main mortgages owned by the investors, and the home equity loans that are owned...those bigger first mortgages, but ...

Article: Banks Respond to Demand For New Home Equity Loans
The Washington Post;  September 9, 1987 ;     286 words ......warning that home equity loans have pitfalls and...billion in second mortgages, $35 billion of that...relatively new home equity loans, the American Bankers...billion in second mortgages and about $25 billion in home equity loans in 1985. Firm figures...predicting that ...

Article: Home equity loans getting a second look
The Boston Globe;  November 3, 1991 ;     613 words ...Home equity loans, one of the last large tax...deductions, except for home mortgages and home equity loans. Before that people were...underlying practice of home equity loans," said Guarini in a statement...criticized lenders who push equity loans for consumer ...

Article: Ohio Banks See Big Increase in Home Equity Loans Due to Low Rates.
The News-Herald (Willoughby, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 3, 2002 ;     653 words ......Some banks offer equity loans based on the value...mortgage. Unlike mortgages, interests on...interests on home mortgages and equity loans are tax-deductible...doesn't give home equity loans; however, it accepts mortgages. The 4,200-member...

Article: HOME EQUITY LOANS THEIR POPULARITY IS WANING AND DELIQUENCY RATES ARE ON THE RISE
The Boston Globe;  April 8, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Home equity loans are old hat to Shep...made-for-television movie -- Home equity loans: Value or vice? In...popularity of home equity loans in Massachusetts is...percentage of home equity loans that are more than...Childs is wary: "Home equity loans can be ...

Article: HOME EQUITY LOANS TOP $75 BILLION
The Boston Globe;  July 5, 1988 ;     268 words ...WASHINGTON - Home equity loans, booming in popularity...million homeowners have home equity loans and that three-fourths...past two years. The home equity loans are replacing second mortgages in popularity because they...aggressively promoted the new home equity ...

Article: POPULARITY OF HOME EQUITY LOANS RISES DUE TO TAX CHANGES
The Journal Record;  July 8, 1988 ;     359 words ...WASHINGTON - Home equity loans, enjoying a boom in popularity...million homeowners have home equity loans and that three-fourths...past two years. The home equity loans are replacing second mortgages in popularity because they...aggressively promoted the new home equity ...

Article: Home-equity loans on rise
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 8, 1988 ;     693 words ......billion in second mortgages and home-equity loans last year, and...banking firm. Home-equity loans are basically second mortgages. The borrower pledges...originations of second mortgages, the survey found.. Home-equity loans totaled about...

Article: Big lenders turn to home-equity loans; the 50% jump in securities backed by such loans in '95 reflects the growing presence of large lenders, some seeking an offset to first-mortgage cycles.
American Banker;  April 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ......demand for home equity loans shrinks as consumers...their first mortgages. But when rates...loans, home equity loans, reverse mortgages, and other consumer...on its home equity loans, so that the first and second mortgages add up to 100...

Article: La Ware sees risks in home equity loans. (Federal Reserve Board Governor John La Ware)
American Banker;  March 10, 1992 ;     439 words ......a warning about home equity loans. Federal Reserve Board...about the use of home equity loans by the unemployed were...Association that found home equity loans one of the few areas...0.71% of banks' home equity loans were nonperforming, he...half the rate for first ...

Article: New Rules Sought for Home Equity Loans
The Washington Post;  October 17, 1987 ;     700+ words ......to regulate home equity loans, scheduled for introduction...offering home equity mortgages, in any form. Schumer...sheer volume of new equity loans. New lines of credit and second mortgages are jumping off...consumers' home-equity loans whenever they ...