Housing Challenges Lie Ahead For Struggling Mortgage Industry
June 20, 2008
The mortgage industry may have to wait another year or more before things start to turn around. Sandler O’Neill and Partners, an investment strategy group, claims it may take over a year before bank balance sheets that are loaded with single-family mortgages and home-equity loans begin to stabilize and show improvement. That’s largely because the cyclical... [Includes one chart and one graph]