Residential Mortgage Loans in Negative Equity

API Detailed Documentation

API URL:

https://api.hkma.gov.hk/public/market-data-and-statistics/monthly-statistical-bulletin/banking/residential-mortgage-loans-neg-equity

API Data Enquiry

Output Fields (JSON) Swagger Format
Name Type Unit Of Measure Description
end_of_quarter Date Year and Quater in ISO format yyyy-qq, For example, 1997-Q1
outstanding_loans Number No. Total outstanding number
outstanding_loans_ratio String % Total outstanding number
As % of total mortgage borrowers1
outstanding_loans_amt Number HK$ million Total outstanding value
outstanding_loans_amt_ratio String % Total outstanding value
As % of total outstanding value1
unsecured_portion_amt Number HK$ million Value of unsecured portion
lv_ratio Number % Loan-to-value ratio

Footnotes:

1. Average during period (calculated as [opening stock + closing stock]/2)
2. There is a break in data series at Q4 2001 due to an increase in the number of surveyed institutions.

API Examples

Javascript Example

$.ajax({


url: 'https://api.hkma.gov.hk/public/market-data-and-statistics/monthly-statistical-bulletin/banking/residential-mortgage-loans-neg-equity?offset=0',


dataType:'json',


success:function(data){


alert('results found:'+ data.result.datasize)


}


});

Python Example

import urllib.request


url = 'https://api.hkma.gov.hk/public/market-data-and-statistics/monthly-statistical-bulletin/banking/residential-mortgage-loans-neg-equity?offset=0'


with urllib.request.urlopen (url) as req:


print (req.read())

How to use the APIs

To learn more, please visit API documentation.