ATTOM has released its third-quarter 2021 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 3.59 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were originated in the third quarter of 2021 in the United States. That figure was up 3% from the third quarter of 2020, but down 8% from the second quarter of 2021 – the largest quarterly dip in over a year.
The quarterly decline also was the second