This index includes rate locks from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs loans. Optimal Blue Mortgage Market Indices (https://www2.optimalblue.com/obmmi/)™ (OBMMI™) is calculated from actual locked rates with consumers across over one-third of all mortgage transactions nationwide. OBMMI includes multiple mortgage pricing indices developed around the most popular products and specific borrower and loan level attributes. Each index is calculated as the average of all appropriate rate locks locked through the Optimal Blue product eligibility and pricing engine on a given day. More details about methodology and definitions are available here (https://www2.optimalblue.com/obmmi/).
Housing tenure refers to the family's principal place of residence during the survey. "Owner" includes families living in their own homes, cooperatives or condominium apartments, or townhouses. "Renter" includes families paying rent, as well as families living rent-free in lieu of wages. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).
Housing tenure refers to the family's principal place of residence during the survey. "Owner" includes families living in their own homes, cooperatives or condominium apartments, or townhouses. "Renter" includes families paying rent, as well as families living rent-free in lieu of wages. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).
Housing tenure refers to the family's principal place of residence during the survey. "Owner" includes families living in their own homes, cooperatives or condominium apartments, or townhouses. "Renter" includes families paying rent, as well as families living rent-free in lieu of wages. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).
Housing tenure refers to the family's principal place of residence during the survey. "Owner" includes families living in their own homes, cooperatives or condominium apartments, or townhouses. "Renter" includes families paying rent, as well as families living rent-free in lieu of wages. For more details about the data or the survey, visit the FAQs (https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxfaqs.htm).
The Mortgage Debt Outstanding table is no longer being updated as of March 2020. Many of the series that were published in this table can be found in the Z1 Financial Accounts of the United States release. The Z1 equivalent of this series is found at BOGZ1FL313065433Q. (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL313065433Q) For further information, please refer to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System's Mortgage Debt Outstanding (http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutstand/current.htm).
The Mortgage Debt Outstanding table is no longer being updated as of March 2020. Many of the series that were published in this table can be found in the Z1 Financial Accounts of the United States release. The Z1 equivalent of this series is the sum of BOGZ1FL313065035Q (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL313065035Q), BOGZ1FL313065133Q (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL313065133Q) and BOGZ1FL313065123Q (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL313065123Q). For further information, please refer to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System's Mortgage Debt Outstanding (http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutstand/current.htm).
The Mortgage Debt Outstanding table is no longer being updated as of March 2020. Many of the series that were published in this table can be found in the Z1 Financial Accounts of the United States release. This series has no equivalent and has been discontinued. For further information, please refer to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System's Mortgage Debt Outstanding (http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutstand/current.htm).
Source: Life Insurance Association Of America, Data For 1952-1963: Mimeographed Summary Table On "New Commitments Of Reporting Life Insurance Companies"; Data For 1964-1965: Monthly Tabulation Of "Forward Investment Commitments Of Life Insurance Companies" This NBER data series m10171 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 10 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter10.html. NBER Indicator: m10171