Residential Mortgage Default Risk in Hong Kong
Year: 2008
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The sharp fall in property prices following the Asian financial crisis has led many residential mortgage holders in Hong Kong to experience negative equity. At the end of September 2004, there were about 25,400 loans with a market value lower than the outstanding loan amount. The total value of these loans was HK$43 billion. The mortgage delinquency ratio reached a peak of 1.43 per cent in April 2001. While it has improved since the second half of 2001, the delinquency rate in September 2004, at 0.47 per cent, is still higher than 0.29 per cent in June 1998 when data were first collected. 1 Given that residential mortgage lending represents a significant component of bank assets, how borrowers’ decisions to default are affected by the negative equity position of their mortgages is of interest to policy makers. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Language: English
Topic: Housing Market and Economics
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W201598484