The detailed mortgage lending data for Q3 show that demand was resilient to rising mortgage rates at first. Loan-to-income ratios crept up despite rising financing costs. But with interest rates on new mortgages now around 5%, compared to an average of 2.7% in Q3, the most striking takeaway is how quickly the mortgage market has changed in the past three months.
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