The cash sales share has declined year-over-year every month since January 2013. The share declined by 0.9 percentage points month-over-month in April, although year-over-year comparisons provide a more accurate picture for cash sales share due to seasonality in the housing market, according to CoreLogic.
Read More »Foreclosure Metrics Experience More Double-Digit Declines
On a year-over-year basis, foreclosure inventory—residential homes in some state of foreclosure—declined by 27 percent nationwide, down to about 491,000 homes, according to CoreLogic. This number represents about 1.3 percent of all residential homes with a mortgage nationwide. In May 2014, about 676,000 homes were in foreclosure, comprising 1.7 percent of all mortgages nationwide.
Read More »Distressed Sales Fall to Eight-Year Low
Pre-crisis, distressed sales usually hovered around 2 percent, the report stated. CoreLogic expects the numbers to return to this mark by mid-2017, a claim bolstered by the ongoing shift away from REO sales. REO sales made up 7.4 percent of total distressed sales in April, while short sales made up 3.7 percent.
Read More »Recent Home Price Appreciation Has Led to Reduced Foreclosure Inventory
Increasing home values have played a role in reducing foreclosure inventory, since homeowners who either have little equity or are underwater tend to have higher default rates. Nothaft said homeowners underwater by 20 percent or more had a default rate that was four times that of homeowners with a current LTV ratio of 80 percent.
Read More »CoreLogic Launches New Compliance Solution to Help Lenders With TRID
CoreLogic recently announced the release of its LoanSafe Compliance Manager, a new solution to help lenders comply with a broad array of federal, state, and local residential mortgage lending regulations, including the upcoming TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule.
Read More »Number of Properties With Equity Is Rising While Total of Underwater Homes Declines
About 9.7 million residential properties out of the 50 million homes nationwide with a mortgage (19.4 percent) have less than 20 percent equity, which is commonly referred to as being "under-equitied." About 2.7 percent of homes (1.3 million) have less than 5 percent equity, which is commonly referred to as having "near-negative equity."
Read More »REO Share’s Continued Decline Indicates a ‘Healing’ Market
As has historically been the case, REO sales had the largest cash sales share in March, followed by resales (34.5 percent), short sales (31.6 percent), and new home sales (14.9 percent). All those numbers represented declines from February, according to CoreLogic.
Read More »Four Metro Areas Account For 10 Percent of Nation’s Completed Foreclosures
CoreLogic's April 2015 National Foreclosure Report released this week found that four metropolitan areas accounted for 10 percent of the nation's completed foreclosures for the 12-month period ending April 30, 2015. In addition, about 45 percent of the completed foreclosures during that same period occurred in five states.
Read More »Completed Foreclosures Decline But Remain At Double Pre-Recession Levels
"Despite a slow and steady improvement in most housing market fundamentals, too many families remain in default of their mortgage obligations," said Anand Nallathambi, President and CEO of CoreLogic. "The percent of homeowners with a mortgage that have missed three or more monthly payments or are in foreclosure proceedings dropped to 3.6 percent in our April data. While well below the record peak of nearly 9 percent and the lowest in more than seven years, it remains about double the pre-2007 rate."
Read More »Distressed Sales Share Continues Year-Over-Year Decline, Falls to 12.1 Percent
March's distressed sales share was the lowest percentage for any March since 2007. According to CoreLogic, distressed sales usually experience a month-over-month decline in March due to seasonality; this past March, the distressed sales share fell by 1.9 percentage points from February. According to CoreLogic, 8.4 of home sales were REO (real estate-owned) transactions in March 2015, while 3.7 percent were short sales, totaling 12.1 percent.
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