The trend reflects the depressed housing market, the difficulty of obtaining mortgages and the attraction of paying off mortgage debt while interest rates are at historic lows. 該趨勢反映了房地產(chǎn)市場(chǎng)的低迷，在利率位于歷史低位的情況下難以獲取抵押貸款，付清抵押債務(wù)的吸引力加大。
The U.S. housing market, which touched off the global financial crisis when banks overexposed themselves to bad mortgage debt, continued to show signs of distress. 在眾多銀行曝光存在不良抵押債務(wù)后，受世界金融危機影響的美國房地產(chǎn)業(yè)仍然處于持續低迷中。
