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Antecedents of customer mortgage shopping satisfaction: the mediating role of search intensity, evidence from the NSMO survey

Srinivasa Reddy N (Marketing Area, TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India)
Jayanthi Thanigan (Marketing Area, TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India)

International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis

ISSN: 1753-8270

Article publication date: 22 August 2022

Issue publication date: 27 November 2023

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of customer satisfaction during mortgage purchases. Mortgage demand in the USA has reached an all-time high because of an increase in housing demand after COVID-19. Nonetheless, several customers are dissatisfied with their service providers. Customers who actively search the market gain more information about mortgage providers and use this information to define expectations for lenders. The only way there will be customer satisfaction is if lenders meet these expectations. Therefore, it is economically significant for mortgage lenders to discover the antecedents of mortgage satisfaction.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the partial least squares approach was used to test the hypothesis that satisfaction was influenced by objective knowledge, familiarity and search intensity among a sample of customers (n = 4,512) from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations who had purchased a mortgage in the USA between 2019 and 2020.

Findings

The results of structural modelling showed that familiarity (β = 0.23 and p = 0.01) with and knowledge (β = 0.16 and p = 0.01) of mortgages significantly affected consumer satisfaction during mortgage purchase. Search intensity (p = 0.01) mediated the relationship between knowledge, familiarity and satisfaction.

Research limitations/implications

The primary implication is that mortgage service providers should prioritise educating customers about the mortgage buying process on their websites and in person. So managers must actively assist clients in having realistic expectations. Second, mortgage companies should establish a presence on third-party mortgage comparison websites to ensure that customers actively consider alternatives, thereby increasing customer satisfaction.

Originality/value

This study is unique in being an exploratory study to examine the antecedents of mortgage satisfaction using a public data set. This study uniquely examines the National Survey of Mortgage Originations data set with partial least squares approach to examine underlying customer attitudes.

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Acknowledgements

The opinions and analyses contained herein are solely of the users/authors of any data analyses or papers, and the FHFA cannot and does not attest to or vouch for the quality, accuracy or timeliness of the data or analyses derived from these data after the data has been retrieved from FHFA.gov.

Citation

Reddy N, S. and Thanigan, J. (2023), "Antecedents of customer mortgage shopping satisfaction: the mediating role of search intensity, evidence from the NSMO survey", International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Vol. 16 No. 6, pp. 1089-1109. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-06-2022-0094

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