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Mortgage Loan Data

Mortgage Loan Data

The approximately 27,000 mortgage loan experience cards that comprise this group were collected in the 1940s as part of the NBERs Financial Research Program. Six NBER books were based on analyses of these data and these volumes should be consulted when using this group of materials.

Mortgage Loan Experience Cards


  • Loans made by Commercial Banks: (Rolls 1, 1A, 2, 3 - 8599 cards)

  • Loans made by Life Insurance Companies: (Rolls 4, 5, 6 - 8930 cards)

  • Loans made by Savings and Loans: (Rolls 7, 8, 9 - 6176 cards )

  • HOLC (Home Owners' Loan Corporation: (Roll 10 - 3174 cards)  Jonathan Rose coded HOLC data and can make it available upon request, and the NBER will be releasing a machine readable file in the near future.

  • Documentation, including corrections and explanations



    NBER Books in the Financial Research Program - based on Mortgage Loan Experience Cards

  • Urban Mortgage Lending by Life Insurance Companies, Saulnier, Raymond J. Published in 1950

  • Urban Real Estate Markets: Characteristics and Financing, Fisher, Ernest M. UMI, 1951

  • History and Policies of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Harriss, C. Lowell. UMI, 1951

  • Commercial Bank Activities in Urban Mortgage Financing, Carl F. Behrens. UMI, 1952

  • The Role of Federal Credit Aids in Residential Construction, Grebler, Leo. NBER, 1953

  • Urban Mortgage Lending: Comparative Markets and Experience, Morton, J. E.. UMI, 1956

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