Home Mortgage Delinquencies Jump
FHA Home Mortgage Delinquencies Jump
Just reported that in the fourth quarter of 2016 the Federal Housing Authority reported that home mortgage delinquencies increased for the first time since 2006. It should be kept in mind that this home mortgage delinquency jump comes at a time when the FHA was seeing the lowest home mortgage delinquency rates since 1997!
It’s fair to say that the majority of economists were surprised by this home mortgage delinquency junp. Naturally, it’s way too soon to determine if this is just a blip or the start of an ominous trend. Read more
Home Mortgage Delinquencies Climb
Lender Processing Services reported that the national mortgage delinquency rate grew to 9.2% in May, up 2.3% from a month earlier and 7.9% from a year earlier.  Home mortgages becoming 30-days delinquent lead the overall uptick, according to the report, while new real estate owned (REO) assets slipped from recent all-time highs. More than 7.3m mortgages in some stage of delinquency or REO. Read more
Home Mortgage Delinquencies Slow – But Still Hit Record
According to credit reporting agency TransUnion, for the three months ended Sept. 30, 6.25 percent of U.S. mortgage loans were 60 or more days past due.
The rate was up 7.6 percent from the second quarter. That’s a much smaller jump than the 11.3 percent rise in the second quarter from the first, and the 14 percent leap seen in the quarter before that.
Being two months behind is considered a first step toward foreclosure, because it’s so hard to catch up with payments at that point.
Home Mortgage Delinquencies Increase
Two of the main banking regulators, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision jointly released data on mortgage performance in the second quarter, and the news was not good. The report covers 34 million individual first mortgages totaling about $6 Trillion.
All types of delinquencies were up, but most distressing was the information about serious delinquencies, or mortgages that are more than 60 days past due. They reached 5.3% of all mortgages, up from 4.7% in the first quarter, an increase of 11.5%. Foreclosures-in-process reached 2.9% of all mortgages, up from 2.4% in the first quarter — a 16.2% increase.
“The mortgage data reported for the second quarter of 2009 continued to reflect negative trends influenced by weakness in economic conditions, including high unemployment and declining home prices in weak housing markets,” the report said.                                                                                                                  University City real estate