Loss Mitigation

New six-year deal will enable Computershare to deliver continued top-notch customer service throughout the lifecycle of the mortgage via Sagent’s fintech solutions.

A recent analysis has found that delinquency rates 30 days or more past due are sliding, but nearly one million homeowners remain at least six months behind on payments.

The share of homeowners in forbearance continues to slide week-after-week, dropping this week to 2.89% of servicers’ volume, with nearly 1.4 million nationwide currently in plans.

Wyoming’s Natrona County and Idaho’s Blaine County have the highest percent of their housing stock at risk of wildfire damage.

New actions taken by the FHA will address the continued impact of the pandemic on individuals and families across the country at-risk of losing their home.

At this year’s Five Star Conference in Dallas, hundreds of default servicing and property management professionals attended various educational Labs geared toward enhancing their knowledge base after a year of rapid change.

The number of borrowers in COVID-19-related mortgage loan forbearance plans dipped below 1.6 million for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, according to the weekly report from Black Knight, whose data-analytics team has been tracking forbearance activity ...

After weeks of leveling off, the share of mortgage loans in forbearance plans dipped this week, with a large shift in the location of many FHA and VA loans, which were bought out of Ginnie Mae pools and moved onto servicer balance sheets.

Mom-and-pop landlords have been forgoing maintenance due the eviction moratorium, as a new study reports that 28% of landlords were found deferring maintenance on at least one of their units during the pandemic.

Beginning today, the CFPB’s new rule to increase protections over homeowners takes effect, as servicers step up their efforts to assist borrowers in jeopardy of foreclosure.