by Calculated Risk on 6/12/2025 12:00:00 PM
The Federal Reserve released the Q4 2024 Flow of Funds report today: Financial Accounts of the United States.
The net worth of households and nonprofits fell to $169.3 trillion during the first quarter of 2025. The value of directly and indirectly held corporate equities decreased $2.3 trillion and the value of real estate decreased $0.2 trillion.
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Household debt increased 1.9 percent at an annual rate in the first quarter of 2025. Consumer credit grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent, while mortgage debt (excluding charge-offs) grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent.
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The first graph shows Households and Nonprofit net worth as a percent of GDP.
Net worth decreased $1.6 trillion in Q1. As a percent of GDP, net worth decreased in Q1 and is below the peak in 2021.
This includes real estate and financial assets (stocks, bonds, pension reserves, deposits, etc.) net of liabilities (mostly mortgages). Note that this does NOT include public debt obligations.
The second graph shows homeowner percent equity since 1952.
Household percent equity (as measured by the Fed) collapsed when house prices fell sharply in 2007 and 2008.
In Q1 2025, household percent equity (of household real estate) was at 72.0% – down from 72.2% in Q4, 2024
Note: This includes households with no mortgage debt.
The third graph shows household real estate assets and mortgage debt as a percent of GDP.
Mortgage debt increased by $45 billion in Q1.
Mortgage debt is up $2.78 trillion from the peak during the housing bubble, but, as a percent of GDP is at 44.8% – down from Q4 – and down from a peak of 73.1% of GDP during the housing bust.
The value of real estate, as a percent of GDP, decreased in Q1 and is below the recent peak in Q2 2022, but is well above the median of the last 30 years.
