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.
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:
README holc_codebook.xls
holc_description.txt holc_sample.dta
Documentation, including corrections and explanations
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