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FHA’s Annual Single-Family Business Down 10% from Last Year

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured 1.74 million single-family mortgages during fiscal year 2010, which for the agency ended in September. The collective value of the loans endorsed was $318.8 billion. FHA's loan volume for the year was down 10.3 percent from 2009, and came in below the 1.87 million mortgages it had previously projected would be endorsed in the 2010 fiscal year. The agency's serious delinquency rate stood at 8.4 percent at year-end. At the same time in 2009, the rate was 8.3 percent.

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Mortgage Defaults Decline Despite High Unemployment: S&P

Consumer default rates declined in September across certain structured finance categories, including first- and second-lien mortgages, according to a report issued Thursday by Standard & Poor's. The improvements, which S&P's data shows have continued since last year, came despite a national unemployment rate that is still near its recession peak. The agency's analysts explained that job growth typically lags an economic recovery, and noted tighter underwriting standards are having a positive effect.

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Freddie Mac Requests $100M in Taxpayer Support after Q3 Loss

Freddie Mac said Wednesday that it lost $2.5 billion during the third quarter of this year. Add to that the $1.6 billion dividend payment the GSE had to make to Treasury on stock the company relinquished in exchange for bailout money, and Freddie Mac reported a net loss attributable to common shareholders of $4.1 billion. The company is asking Treasury for a draw of $100 million in taxpayer dollars. Since Freddie Mac was placed under government control, it has needed $64.2 billion to stay afloat.

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LPS Report Shows Foreclosure Timelines Continue to Stretch

Market data collected by Lender Processing Services (LPS) during the month of September reveals that foreclosure timelines continue to increase, with borrowers in the latest stages of foreclosure languishing without having made a mortgage payment for up to 16 months. LPS notes that the average time a loan remains delinquent in judicial states such as New York and Florida now exceeds 500 days. Nationwide, more than 4.3 million loans are currently 90 or more days delinquent or in foreclosure, according to LPS.

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Mortgage Delinquency Roll Rates Peaked in Summer 2009: TransUnion

The number of consumers rolling their delinquency status on mortgage payments from 30 to 60 days past due and 60 to 90 days past due peaked in July 2009, according to a new study from TransUnion. It's interesting to note that the National Bureau of Economic Research has declared the end of the nation's latest recession to be June 2009, one month before the roll-rate crest. TransUnion says although we may have left the worst of the recession behind, from a credit perspective we were just hitting the toughest period for consumer default.

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Single-Family Delinquencies Fall for Both Fannie and Freddie

The percentage of home loans 90 or more days past due held by the nation's two largest mortgage companies has declined yet again. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have reported a steady drop in their single-family delinquency rates since February of this year. According to the latest figures from Fannie, its serious delinquency rate fell to 4.70 percent in August. Freddie's dropped to 3.80 percent at the end of September. Movement in the two GSEs' multifamily delinquency rates was mixed.

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Bank of America Loses $7.3 Billion in Third Quarter

Bank of America said Tuesday that it lost $7.3 billion during the three-month period ending in September. The company attributed the deficit to new financial reform regulations related to credit and debit card payments. On the mortgage side of its business, though, the company is seeing improvements. Mortgage banking income jumped 95 percent last quarter, the ratio of nonperforming loans and assets declined, and no sizeable losses are expected from the company's foreclosure suspension and affidavit problems.

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Seven Million U.S. Mortgages Past Due or in Foreclosure: LPS

There are 7,018,000 mortgages in the United States that are 30 or more days delinquent or in the process of foreclosure, according to new data from Lender Processing Services (LPS). Of the more than 7 million home loans in the country currently going unpaid, 2,055,000 have already commenced foreclosure proceedings. LPS reports that 4,963,000 are in the pre-foreclosure default stages, with nearly half of these falling into the 90-plus-days delinquent bucket.

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Weak Job Market Strong Dynamic in Commercial Mortgage Performance

The nation's poor employment picture has become one of the biggest impediments to a perceptible recovery in the mortgage markets - both for residential and commercial real estate. Job loss is now the primary trigger of default among struggling homeowners, and two separate research reports have uncovered a clear correlation between state-specific delinquency rates for commercial mortgages and unemployment levels. Nevada and Michigan rank among the highest for both, according to Fitch and Moody's.

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Industry Completes 149,000 Permanent Loan Mods in August: Report

New data released by the HOPE NOW Alliance Thursday shows that during the month of August, mortgage servicers completed approximately 116,000 proprietary loan modifications for homeowners and 33,000 mods under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), for a total of 149,000. The report also shows that foreclosures are continuing to increase, despite the strides made in foreclosure prevention efforts. In August, new foreclosures were initiated on 245,015 properties, while foreclosure sales were completed on 101,780.

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