According to Black Knight, the number of serious delinquencies (90-days or more past due) dropped to 471,000 units, the lowest reported since August 2006, a 27% year-over-year drop.
Read More »Delinquency Rate Finds New Low
“For the second quarter in a row, the mortgage delinquency rate fell to its lowest level since MBA’s survey began in 1979,” said Marina Walsh, MBA’s VP of Industry Analysis.
Read More »Freddie Mac Announces First Seriously Delinquent Loan Sale of 2015
In the first bulk sale of seriously delinquent mortgage loans from its portfolio in 2015, Freddie Mac announced on Tuesday it has auctioned off 1,975 deeply delinquent non-performing loans with an aggregate unpaid balance of approximately $392 million.
Read More »FHFA Enacts New Rules for Sales of Non-Performing GSE Loans
In an ongoing effort to reduce the number of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and transfer risk to the private sector, the GSEs' conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), on Monday announced enhanced requirements for the sales of NPLs by the GSEs. Freddie Mac has sold severely delinquent loans through two transactions in the past six months, one that totaled $596 million in unpaid balance (UPB) in August 2014 and one in February 2015 that covered $392 in UPB.
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