Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q2 2026

Mortgage balances fell by $74 billion (-0.6%) in Q2, to $13.12 trillion, according to the Household Debt and Credit Report from the New York Fed, which gets the data from Equifax. The unusual decline “was due to a temporary gap in the reporting of mortgages on credit reports due to a transfer of servicing,”...