Do Homeowners Know Their House Values and Mortgage Terms?
Preprint
- 1 March 2006
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
To assess whether homeowners know their house values and mortgage terms, we compare the distributions of these variables in the household-reported 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to the distributions in lender-reported data. We also examine the share of SCF respondents who report not knowing these variables. We find that most homeowners appear to report their house values and broad mortgage terms reasonably accurately. Some adjustable-rate mortgage borrowers, though, and especially those with below-median income, appear to underestimate or not know how much their interest rates could change.Keywords
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