Reporting data for August 2022, S&P and Experian found defaults for first-lien mortgages held steady for the second month in a row. Click through to learn the details.
Read More »Q2 First-Lien Mortgage Performance Improves YoY
Despite rising prices and speculation about looming recession, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reports that the performance of first-lien mortgages held by the federal banking system improved throughout the course of Q2 2022.
Read More »First-Lien Mortgages Get an A+
The OCC reports improvement across the board for recent mortgage metrics, but what have servicers done to make this possible?
Read More »First-Lien Mortgage Performance Improves While Foreclosure Metrics Decline
Foreclosure starts and foreclosure completions were also down over the year, according to the OCC. Servicers initiated 70,728 foreclosures during Q2, which was down from 11.3 percent in the same quarter in 2014. Completed foreclosures during Q2 totaled 37,725, which was a drop of 23.4 percent from a year earlier
Read More »Mortgage Performance Improves Across the Board For Eight National Banks
Foreclosure activity declined substantially year-over-year in Q1. The number of properties in the process of foreclosure as of the end of the quarter dropped down to 299,424, a decline of 30.8 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. The nearly 300,000 loans in the process of foreclosure during Q1 comprised about 1.3 percent of the loans in the portfolio.
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