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
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
‘Dramatic increase.’ Foreclosure filings are up more than 150%. Here’s what that tells us about the housing market
The number of foreclosure starts — which is when the first public foreclosure notice happens — is up 219% since the start of the year, according to real estate data analytics firm ATTOM Data Solutions’ midyear 2022 U.S. foreclosure market report. What’s more, the number of properties that had foreclosure filings (this number includes foreclosure starts) is up 153% from the same time period last Continue Reading
Foreclosure Activity Increases for Eleventh Consecutive Month
ATTOM, along with its subsidiary RealtyTrac, has released its latest Foreclosure Market Report for March and the first quarter of 2022 which has found that there was a total of 33,333 properties with foreclosure filings against them, up 29% from February (which saw 25,833 filings) and up 181% from a year ago. Foreclosure activity has now surpassed numbers seen before the Continue Reading
