SP Group provides the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with analytic support services for the American Housing Survey (AHS)....more
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In previous blogs we followed the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to examine some effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, This week a new dataset was released that encompasses data collected from September 2 to September 14, 2020....more
In our earlier blogs, we followed the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market....more
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) released its July 2020 Credit Risk Report. Here are some observations on FHA’s SDQ portfolio of loans as of July 2020...more
From the start of this pandemic, the performance of the housing market has been counter-intuitive....more
In this blog, we investigate the impact of unemployment on homeowners based on their education attainment....more
The increase in forbearance rates are concerning, but the degree to which it can be a predictor of defaults and foreclosures is far less certain....more
SP Group Founder and CEO, Pratima Damani, discussed some of our recent research with GlobeSt.com....more
Stakeholders throughout the housing and mortgage finance industries are focused on finding the proper response to the COVID-induced crisis that will inevitably lead to massive mortgage defaults....more
Renters are twice as unsure as homeowners in their ability meet their housing payments. Black homeowners are three times as unsure as white homeowners in their ability to pay next month’s mortgage....more