“Please release me, let me go.”
Alex Shootman
CEO
Alkami
.…quoting Englebert Humperdinck in a post about “trapped home equity,” via LinkedIn.
Plano-headquartered Alkami Technology is out with its chart of the week, titled “Home Equity Balances versus Prime Interest Rate and U.S. Median Home Prices.”
Writing on LinkedIn, Shootman tapped the Humperdinck ditty to describe the situation faced by many homeowners, who aren’t eager to give up their low mortgages in exchange for a much higher one at another address.
“Engelbert Humperdinck probably wasn’t crooning about trapped home equity, but the Alkami Technology chart of the week shows home equity loans up by more than 1/3 over three years with home values increasing and home owners sitting on low-interest mortgages,” Shootman writes.
You can see the charts in his LinkedIn post here.
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