Survey Says, Banks Are Tightening Lending Standards

The Federal Reserve recently published their quarterly survey of 84 banks. The survey asks each bank to summarize it’s trends and lending standards and if each bank’s lending guidelines are becoming more or less restrictive.

About 75% of the surveyed banks said their standards have tightened for residential mortgage loans. To quote the somewhat dry language of the report, “Large majorities of domestic respondents reported having tightened their lending standards…over the previous three months. About 80%…noted that they had tightened their lending standards…for revolving home equity lines of credit.”

Based on what I hear from clients and friends on the banking side, the percentage will probably approach 90% next quarter.


You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Comments are closed.

  • Sign up for Email Updates

    Sign Up to Receive Blog Posts by Email!

    Enter your Email


    Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz
  • Recent Posts

  • Our Coverage Areas

  • Latest Carmel Listings

    previous next
     
  • Latest Pebble Beach Listings

    previous next
     
  • RSS Feed

  • Altos Charts