The improving economy, combined with mortgage interest rates that will stay low by past standards, should usher in a renewed period of growth in the stock of mortgage debt over the next few years. But the wave of new mortgage regulations put in place following the financial crisis, alongside bank caution, both suggest that this won’t mark the start of another dangerous boom in mortgage lending.
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