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Journal Article
More Households Are Tapping into Their Home Equity After Rapid Home Value Appreciation

The use of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) grew over the last two years after nearly a decade of declining balances. Relatively more households opened and used HELOCs in states that experienced faster home value growth. Once tapped, households typically use HELOC funds to engage in some targeted debt consolidation that could help them manage their household balance sheets.
Rocky Mountain Economist

Working Paper
How Much Are Car Purchases Driven by Home Equity Withdrawal?

Previous research indicates that changes in housing wealth affect consumer spending on cars. We find that home equity extraction plays only a small role in this relationship. Consumers rarely use funds from equity extraction to purchase a car directly, even during the mid-2000s housing boom; this finding holds across three nationally representative household surveys. We find in credit bureau data that equity extraction does lead to a statistically significant increase in auto loan originations, consistent with equity extraction easing borrowing constraints in the auto loan market. This ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2015-106

Discussion Paper
Mortgage Lock‑In Spurs Recent HELOC Demand

Mortgage balances, the largest component of U.S. household debt, grew by only $77 billion (0.6 percent) in the second quarter of 2024, according to the latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit from the New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data. This modest increase reflects a substantial slowdown in mortgage origination; only $374 billion was originated during the second quarter, compared to an average of about $1 trillion per quarter between 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, after nearly thirteen years of decline, balances on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) have begun to ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20240806

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