Loss Mitigation

Following a five-week streak in improvement when it comes to mortgage forbearance volumes across the country, the data team at Black Knight reports not only the sixth week of declining activity but also the largest dip in six months. In ...

The decline over the month of March represents the healthiest monthly rate of improvement since the end of last November.

Considering recently revised FHFA terms, and the 620,000 active plans still listed with March month-end expirations, researchers say they'll be watching the numbers closely over the next few weeks.

The forbearance report from Black Knight's McDash Flash Forbearance Tracker showed the largest week-over-week decline in forbearance activity since early January. Active plans dropped by 77,000 overall in the week ending Tuesday, March 9. As of that date, 2.6 million ...

Extensions to the Federal Government’s foreclosure moratorium and CARES Act mortgage forbearance program are keeping a wave of foreclosures at bay.

The largest rise was for portfolio and private label securities loans, due to increases in both Ginnie Mae buyouts and other PLS loans.

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More than a million mortgagers in a recent survey said they fear they are at risk of eviction or foreclosure or being forced to move in the next 30 days. Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA) ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released the Federal Property Manager’s 21-page Foreclosure Prevention, Refinance Report for October 2020. The full document details the entire month, but here are some highlights.  When it came to refinancing, October continued to raise numbers. A record-breaking ...

Efforts at federal and local levels to help homeowners into forbearance rather than foreclosure have been enormously effective, according to economists, but the uncertainty and temporary nature of those protections leave the market at risk of a possible wave of ...