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More People are Skipping Housing Payments Now that Protections are Over
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, protections were put into place to help homeowners and tenants who couldn’t keep up with their mortgage and rent payments. Homeowners were allowed to put their mortgages into forbearance and pause payments for up to 18 months, while eviction bans protected tenants who couldn’t pay rent due to job loss or another financial hardship.
20 Dec 2021
Black Knight: Number of Mortgages in Forbearance Declines
Forbearance plan exit volumes increased week-over-week heading into November as the share of mortgage loans in forbearance fell below 2% for the first time since the early stages of the pandemic.
12 Nov 2021
CFPB to Closely Scrutinize How Mortgage Servicers Handle Borrowers Exiting Forbearance
As the COVID-19 related foreclosure moratoriums wind to a close and mortgage servicers brace for a potential wave of defaults, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that it will be fully enforcing the foreclosure protections put in place in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008.
11 Nov 2021
MBA: Forbearance Hits Lowest Level Yet
The share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in forbearance has reached the lowest level since the start of the pandemic, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, but an increase in the number of borrowers exiting forbearance into loan modifications points to ongoing struggles in the recovery from the pandemic.
9 Nov 2021
Homeowners Leaving Forbearance Now More Likely to Need Help
More than half a million homeowners who put their loans in forbearance during the pandemic are now in active loss mitigation, a 37 percent jump from a month ago, as relief programs that allowed millions of borrowers to put their payments on hold for up to 18 months expire.
2 Nov 2021
Fannie and Freddie Loans in Forbearance Drop Below 1%
The total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 6 basis points to 2.15% of servicers’ portfolio volume as of Oct. 24, 2021.
2 Nov 2021
Delinquencies Continue to Decline but Forbearances Still a Concern
The national delinquency rate has fallen below 4.0 percent for the first time since COVID-19 started messing up the world.
22 Oct 2021
Illinois, New Jersey and Delaware have Most Markets at Elevated Risk from Pandemic Fallout
ATTOM report shows that New Jersey, Illinois and Delaware had the highest concentrations of the most at-risk markets in the third quarter – with the biggest clusters in the New York City and Chicago areas – while the West remained far less exposed.
21 Oct 2021
Foreclosures See Hard Spike as Federal Protections End
As expected, the end of federal protections in September has coincided with a significant uptick in foreclosures, as default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions spiked 34% in Q3 of this year according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions®, potentially foreshadowing a difficult winter for homeowners still struggling through the pandemic.
20 Oct 2021
MBA Survey: “Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 2.28%”
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest Forbearance and Call Volume Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 34 basis points from 2.62% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior week to 2.28% as of October 10, 2021.
18 Oct 2021