Auction.com has released its 2023 Seller Insights Report which found that approximately 92% of default servicing industry leaders expect completed foreclosure volume to increase in 2023 compared to 2022, while 85% expect home prices to decline in 2023 compared to 2022. The 2023 Seller Insights Report also revealed that economic conditions will have the biggest impact on foreclosure volumes for Continue Reading
Serious Delinquencies Continue to Improve in May
According to Black Knight, reversing much of April's calendar-driven spike, the national delinquency rate fell 11 basis points in May 2023 to 3.10%–the lowest reported total rate since March 2023's record low of 2.92% The number of borrowers who were a single payment past due improved by 94,000 (-9.5%), erasing nearly half of the prior month's increase. Serious delinquencies (loans 90 or Continue Reading
Foreclosure Starts and Completions Down From April
ATTOM has released its April 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, showing a total of 32,977 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — were down 10% from last month but up 8% from a year ago. Illinois, Maryland, and New Jersey post highest foreclosure rates Nationwide one in every 4,234 housing units had a Continue Reading
Q1 Foreclosure Activity Trends Upward
ATTOM’s Q1 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report has found that a total of 95,712 U.S. properties had foreclosure filings during Q1 of 2023, up 6% from Q4 of 2022, and up 22% year-over-year. The report also shows a total of 36,617 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in March 2023 alone, up 20% from February 2023’s totals, and up 10% from a year ago—the 23rd consecutive month with a Continue Reading
Market Forecast Calls for Possible Jump in Foreclosure Auction Volume
A case study of two nationwide cohorts of properties brought to foreclosure in Q4 2022 reveals that proactive pricing is key to optimal distress disposition during a housing slowdown, according to Auction.com’s 2023 Distressed Market Outlook. Pricing in the proactive pricing cohort was reduced by 11% between September 2022 and December 2022, while pricing in the status quo pricing Continue Reading
December Foreclosure Filings Double Year-Over-Year
According to ATTOM Data’s year-end 2022 Foreclosure Market Report, lenders reported that foreclosure filing rate (consisting of default notices, scheduled auctions, and repossessions) were up 115% from 2021, representing 324,237 properties, but down 34% from 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world over. Compared to 2009, foreclosure filings were reported to be Continue Reading
Will Projected Price Declines Drive Pandemic Homebuyers Underwater?
According to a new report from Redfin, recent homebuyers in certain places, like Sacramento and Phoenix, are at higher risk of falling underwater on their mortgage, while Florida homeowners are at even lower risk. New data found just 3.4% of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last two years would be underwater on their mortgage if home values were to fall 4% by the end of 2023. The typical home Continue Reading
Delinquencies, Foreclosures Up Year-Over-Year But Still Near Record Lows
CoreLogic’s Loan Performance Insights Report for September 2022 has found that 2.8% of all mortgages nationwide (approximately 1.4 million loans) were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure), representing a 1.1 percentage point decrease compared to 3.9% in September 2021. The nation’s overall delinquency rate dropped for the 18th straight month Continue Reading
Mortgage Defaults: What We Learned from 2007
A new white paper by Gopal "Sharath" Sharathchandra, the SVP of Financial Solutions for Ventera, entitled “How High Will Mortgage Defaults Go? Lessons from the 2007 Recession” forecasts the impact of the recent decline in home prices and the effects it might have on the mortgage market. According to Sharathchandra, price declines are likely to mirror those seen in 2007, but across a Continue Reading
Nationwide Foreclosure Starts Hit Pre-Pandemic Levels
ATTOM has released its August 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, revealing a total of 34,501 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings —default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions— up 14% from a month ago, and up 118% from a year ago. Key Findings: • Completed foreclosures increase 28% from last month • One in every 4,072 housing units had a foreclosure filing nationwide in Continue Reading
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