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November Foreclosure Rate in U.S. Up 77 Percent from a year ago

Dennis Norman

The foreclosure rate in the U.S. for the month of November, 2009 was 3.09 percent, a 77.6 percent increase from November, 2008 when the rate was 1.74 percent according to a report by First American CoreLogic.

In addition, the report showed that the number of borrowers that are seriously delinquent on their

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Florida predicted to have highest mortgage delinquency rate next year

Mortgage Delinquencies are expected to decrease in many states in 2010; Florida, Arizona, California, New York and Virginia expected to see increases.

Dennis Norman

According to the Annual Consumer Credit Forecasts issued by TransUnion, Florida is expected to have the highest mortgage delinquency rate by the end of next year at 16.86 percent (up from 13.34 [...]

Mortgage delinquencies set new record in third quarter

Unemployment Remains Main Cause of Delinquencies

The second quarter of this year saw mortgage delinquencies reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association hit the highest level since they began keep track of the data almost 40 years ago back in 1972.  Unfortunately that record didn’t stand long and was broken by the mortgage delinquency rate for third [...]

Setting Up the Next Leg Down in Housing

Loose lending standards in government-backed mortgages is setting up the next wave of defaults and sharp declines in housing prices.

Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds

Beneath the hype that housing has bottomed is an ugly little scenario: lending standards are still loose and the low-down payment, high-risk loans being guaranteed by government agencies are setting [...]

Mortgage delinquencies reach record levels; Is this the next bubble to burst?

Dennis Norman

All the news lately about the housing market, home sales in particular, has been encouraging and showing signs of stabilization in the real estate market and demonstrating that the real estate market may have seen the worst.  Just when you think you may be through the storm though you see another dark cloud lurking [...]

Mortgage delinquency rates rise

Dennis Norman

TransUnion released the results of its analysis of trends in the mortgage industry for the second quarter of 2009 and the associated impact on the U.S. consumer. 

Part of this report focused on delinquencies on mortgages and the rate of mortgage delinquency.  The report showed that mortgage loan delinquency (the ratio of borrowers 60 or [...]

Mortgage delinquencies increase again but loan modifications appear to be working

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

Today the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of the Thrift Supervision (OTS) released their mortgage metrics report for 1st quarter 2009.   The report covers the performance of 34 million home loans in the US.

The report shows that delinquencies and foreclosures continue to increase during the [...]

Making Home Affordable Plan

Dennis Norman

On the same day Congress pass the Economic Recovery Plan in February Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner introduced the
Financial Stability Plan.  Included in this plan is the Making Home Affordable Program in an effort to stabilize the housing market and help 7 to 9 million Americans reduce their mortgage payments to more affordable levels.

There are two [...]

Mortgage delinquenices in 4th quarter 2008 are highest for the year

By: Dennis Norman

Dennis Norman

This past week the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision  issued a joint report on mortgage performance for 4th quarter 2008. The report shows the percentage of performing mortgages for the 4th quarter of 2008 had dropped to 89.95% down from 93.33% at the end [...]

Foreclosures and delinquencies at record high

By: Dennis Norman

 Last Friday the Mortgage Bankers Association announced that almost 7% of the homeowners in America with a mortgage were behind in payments on their loan which is a record high.  The number of homeowners currently somewhere in the foreclosure process is also at a record high according to the Mortgage Bankers Association quarterly [...]