Need further proof that the housing crisis is over? CoreLogic’s April 2016 National Foreclosure Report provides it.
Read More »Fewer Serious Delinquencies Indicate Market Stability
Loss mitigation efforts will continue in isolated pockets that are still struggling, according to HOPE NOW.
Read More »Is this the New Normal for the Mortgage Market?
It has been more than seven years since the mortgage crisis hit the country. What will the market look like at the end of 2016?
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 »Foreclosure Inventory Rate Drops to Below Pre-Recession Levels
The foreclosure inventory rate has now declined year-over-year for 44 consecutive months, including June. The 1.2 percent foreclosure inventory rate represented about 472,000 homes, down from 664,000 in June 2014. Although the national foreclosure inventory rate is back to pre-recession levels, the rate remains high in select areas hit hardest by the crisis, such as Florida and New Jersey.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Net Income Surges in Q2, But Still Lags Behind Last Year’s Pace
The quarter-over-quarter increase in net income for Q2 2015 was largely driven by fair value gains, offset by credit-related expense that was negatively affected by an increase in interest rates. Fannie Mae's net fair value gains in Q2 totaled $2.6 billion, compared with losses of $1.9 billion in Q1.
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 »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 »Foreclosure Completions Down Two-Thirds From 2010 Peak
Foreclosure inventory, which is the number of homes in some state of foreclosure, totaled 553,000 in February (about 1.4 percent of all residential mortgages nationwide), the lowest total since March 2008 and a year-over-year decline of 27.3 percent from February 2014, when there were 761,000 homes in some state of foreclosure (1.9 percent of all residential mortgages).
Read More »Legal Technicalities May Let Defaulting Borrowers Keep Their Homes Without Paying
The issue has been particularly hot in judicial foreclosure states such as Florida and New Jersey, where the foreclosure process must pass through the courts and signed by a judge to be completed.
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