Loss Mitigation

After falling by 273,000 or 9% over the past two weeks, forbearance volumes edged upward this week. Data collected by Black Knight through November 17 showed that about 5.2% of all active mortgage loans nationwide are in forbearance programs—that's about ...

After declining by 5% last week, the number of mortgage loans actively in forbearance dropped again this past week, according to Black Knight, which calls the week of November 3-10 one of "strong forbearance improvement." "The decline was seen across ...

Serious delinquencies have spiked to the highest rate in some 21 years and double The Great Recession's January 2010 peak. Yet, foreclosures are at an all-time low. Here's what it all means.

This marked the first time since mid-April that the total number of forbearance plans were below the 3 million level. Here's what factors are in play.

An expert on a webinar panel said analysis of interest rates, forbearance numbers, and stimulus developments can help provide a more realistic understanding of housing developments.

Efforts by the Federal Reserve to prop up the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market do not appear to have worked as well as hoped, according to a new data analysis released by Bloomberg. As of Sept. 29, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. ...

"Policymakers Should Maintain Forbearance but Fix Its Costs." That is the title of a new brief published by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. Research associates Michael Neal,  Linna Zhu, and Faith Schwartz explain that mortgage performance following Hurricane ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Thursday released its Q2 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report. The report shows Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, since the 2008 start of conservatorship, completed 252,014 foreclosure prevention actions. Overall, that brings the number of ...

Here's your chance to revisit some of our recent complimentary webinars. From servicing risk to eClosings and changes to the Claims Without Conveyance of Title program, here are some of our recent presentations featuring insights from industry subject-matter experts.

Legal issues, including compliance, defaults, and the government and service sector perspectives were the topics of discussion at the Five Star Legal League 100 Fall Summit.