Category: Finance, Mortgages.
Size of the Turkish Mortgage Market.
While the existing mortgage loans had a share of only 6 percent of the GDP in 2004, the share jumped to 6 percent in 2005, and then to 4 percent in 200Currently the existing mortgage loans are about 31 billion YTL, which is about 5 percent of GDP. The Turkish mortgage market has shown promising growth in the last few years. These statistics clearly show that mortgage market has been growing faster than the rest of the economy. The rapid growth has been fueled by primarily by economic factors such as falling interest rates and improving economic stability but also by characteristic factors for Turkey such as solid population growth and strong ownership culture. As described below we expect that it will likely to continue this trend in the near future too. For 2008 we anticipate that the fast growth in the mortgage market will continue amid the continued decrease in the interest rates.
Based on these conjectures, we anticipate that the annualized growth in the mortgage market in the beginning of 2008 will average about 40 percent and then will accelerate to about 50 percent as long run interest rates decrease to 1 percent in the second half of 200Based on these predictions, we find that by the end of 2008, the mortgage loans will be about 47 billion YTL, making about 5 percent of the GDP then. Assuming that inflation will move towards targeted 4 percent and Turkey s macroeconomic indicators will not get weaker in 2008, we expect that the interest rates will continue to fall in 200In addition, when the secondary mortgage market starts, capital markets will start to share the risk of mortgages and the cost of getting a mortgage loan will likely decrease further. Looking even further, based on the assumption of continued decrease in the interest rates, and recently announced plan of inflation falling to 4 percent as planned in 2008, and 2010, 2009, our models predict that by end of 2012 the mortgage loans can be as large as 15 to 18 percent of the GDP. The second one is a domestic financial crisis probably caused by a current account imbalance. Let s also note that we believe that there two major risks to our forecasts for 2008: The first is a turmoil in the global economy and especially world s financial markets driven by a recession in the USA. In either case, it would be very hard to predict the growth of the mortgage market for 200 Predictions on the Structure of the Mortgage Market.
If the interest rates continue to decrease, the share of refinance activity can be even more than half of the total mortgage applications in a very short time. 2) Variable rate mortgages: Currently 99 percent of all mortgages are fixed rate mortgages. We believe that in 2008, the Turkish mortgage market structure will start to see several important changes: 1) Increase in refinance activity: Currently the majority of the new mortgage agreements are issuances of new mortgages and refinancing of mortgages does not take a large share in the market, we believe that, however starting in 2008, the refinancing will start to take a significant share in the market amid the decreasing interest rates. This is not surprising as variable rate instruments are very new in Turkey and the risk and benefits of these new instruments are not very understood yet. However, we believe that the advantages of the variable rate mortgages will start to draw more people and its share will start to increase slowly in 200But for this, banks should reduce the interest rates of the variable rate mortgages, which did not happen so far because of the lack of competition in this type of products. In addition, the very large movements in the interest rates and exchange rates in early 2000s and accompanying bankruptcies are still fresh in the memories of Turkish people and created a crisis- awaiting culture. We anticipate that as the competition among mortgage lenders increase, we will start to see more favorable variable rate mortgage instruments soon. 3) Lending institutions: Currently all mortgages are offered by banks.
These new lenders will start to change the market structure as they may be less structured and flexible than the banks. 4) Secondary mortgage market: Secondary mortgage market is expected to start in 200We expect that at the beginning, the secondary market will be experimental without causing a significant immediate change in the interest rates, as the market, however matures, it will be one of the most important pillars of the mortgage market. However, in 2008 consumer funding companies that are allowed to invest in capital markets to create funds for the home loans will start to offer mortgages. It is hard to predict the role of the secondary market right now, but it is worth noting that secondary mortgage markets tend to play an important role in a few years after it started. The benefits of the securitization are reduced interest rates for the borrower, increase in the credit availability, liquidity increase for the lenders, and increased efficiency in the mortgage markets. For example, mortgages trades in, in the USA the secondary market started in 1970, and in 1972 it represented 4 percent of the total mortgage debt, the share increased to 9 percent in 1979, and then to 16 percent in 198In order to see comparable growth in the Turkish secondary mortgage market, corporations such as Freddie Mac should be founded, the growth will, otherwise be much slower. When mortgage markets merge with the capital markets through securitized mortgage loans, the market interest rates will quickly impact the mortgage interest rates.
Briefly, we expect that in 2008, growth of the mortgage market will continue its pace and in addition it will continue going through important structural changes that will cause even more growth in the coming years.
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