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Fannie Mae Matches Freddie Mac in Extending Mortgage Forbearance

A couple weeks ago Freddie Mac announced that it would extend the terms of forbearance agreements in order to help more unemployed families to stay in their homes.  This past week it was Fannie Mae’s turn to help out the unemployed families in homes backed by its mortgages. According to Fannie Mae’s servicing guidelines the [...]

Foreclosures Taking Longer than Ever

CNBC’s Diana Olick reports that foreclosures are requiring more time to be completed than ever.  Lender Processing Services (LPS) has tracked the average time from first delinquency to foreclosure at 631 days. The differences are stark between non-judicial and judicial foreclosure states.  The non-judicial states have half the inventory and move the process along at [...]

What is Going on in the Foreclosure Market?

The Mortgage Bankers Association published its “First Look” at mortgage delinquency data for the 3rd quarter this past week.  The MBA found that seasonally adjusted rates fell to 7.99% of all outstanding loans, a drop of 45 basis points compared to the previous quarter, the largest drop in delinquencies of one to four unit properties [...]

Foreclosure Investing – Foreclosure Activity Continues to Trend Higher

RealtyTrac recorded a 7% increase in foreclosure activity in October compared to September.  The notices sent to 230,678 properties (notices of default, auction notices, and notices of bank repossession) represent a decline of 31% since October 2010. One in every 563 homes nationwide received a foreclosure notice in October.  That is HUGE news for foreclosure [...]

Which Servicers Are Best for Short Sales?

According to a report by Moody’s four servicers, CitiMortgage, GMAC, Wells Fargo and Ocwen, outperform major competitors in loss mitigation with distressed homeowners.  In particular they beat out Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase in many loss mitigation areas that were examined during the period June 2010 through June 2011. Bank of America and [...]

New Proposal May Help Some Underwater Owners

The Wall Street Journal broke a story last week that the AG group and major servicers are nearing agreement on a new plan that would allow under water mortgagees to refinance.  The plan, reportedly, will not include any extensive principal forgiveness element, a strategy that has been a major roadblock for agreement on a robo-signing [...]

Who Actually Benefits from Low Mortgage Rates?

So who is benefitting from low mortgage rates?  The plan currently being studied to help more Americans qualify for home refinance has been highly touted as a key to staving off another round of foreclosures.  CNBC analyst, Diane Olick, however, points out that the people who actually benefit from these new low rates are not [...]

Foreclosure Investing – Signs of New Foreclosure Surge

Even though the U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for the third quarter of 2011 only shows an increase in foreclosure activity of 1% over the second quarter, RealtyTrac’s CEO, James Saccacio, sees reason to expect a new surge of filings.  He commented: “Third quarter foreclosure activity increased marginally from the previous quarter, breaking a trend of three [...]

Who are Winners and Losers in HARP 2.0?

The “new and improved” Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) announced a couple weeks ago is designed to help those with mortgages sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac prior to April 2009 that are current on payments but over the current market value.  Restrictions on how far under water the mortgage can be have been [...]

Foreclosure Timeline is Lengthening; Seriously Delinquent Increases

The September LPS Mortgage Monitor by Lender Processing Services indicates that foreclosure timeline, ie and the time in delinquency and foreclosure prior to sale increased over the past year from 484 to 624 days on a nationwide basis. The last payment to foreclosure date in judicial foreclosure states has lengthened to 761 days. A non-judicial [...]