Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

31 p.

Publication Date

Summer 2007

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Real Estate Economics

Source ISSN

1080-8620

Abstract

This article examines the choice of borrowers to extract wealth from housing in the high-cost (subprime) segment of the mortgage market and assesses the prepayment and default performance of these cash-out refinance loans relative to the rate of refinance loans. Consistent with survey evidence, the propensity to extract equity is sensitive to the relative interest rates of other forms of consumer debt. After the loan is originated, results indicate that cash-out refinances perform differently from non-cash-out refinances. For example, cash-outs are less likely to default or prepay, and the termination of cash-outs is more sensitive to changing interest rates and house prices.

Comments

Accepted version. Real Estate Economics, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer 2007): 233-263. DOI. © 2007 Wiley. Used with permission.

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