Default Servicing Industry Leaders Expect Slight Increase in Foreclosure Volume and Falling Home Prices to End 2023
Industry Update
August 25, 2023
Source: Think Realty
Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today released its 2023 Seller Insights report, which shows that 92 percent of default servicing industry leaders expect completed foreclosure auction volume to increase in 2023 compared to 2022 while 85 percent expect home prices to decline in 2023 compared to 2022.
The report is based on a June 2023 survey of more than 50 leaders in the default mortgage servicing industry at the Auction.com Disposition Summit in Dallas. Survey respondents included default servicing leaders from mortgage asset investors, bank servicers, nonbank servicers, government agencies and government-sponsored enterprises.
Economic conditions will have the biggest impact on foreclosure volumes for the remainder of 2023, according to survey respondents. Respondents also expect roll rates from delinquency to foreclosure to continue to rebound back closer to pre-pandemic levels for the remainder of 2023. Those roll rates dropped to historically low levels during the pandemic with its emergency foreclosure prevention efforts.
Nearly half (46 percent) of seriously delinquent loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) have enough partial claim capacity to fund the Payment Supplement Account (PSA) that has been proposed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), survey respondents estimated based on their organization’s portfolio composition.
Survey respondents said they were 32 percent confident on average that their organization could implement the PSA program within the 180-day window suggested in the HUD proposal.
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