DSNews By: Brian Honea December 7, 2015 The GSEs have made helping families avoid foreclosure one of their top priorities since the start of the housing crisis, and Fannie Mae just announced an update to support a policy change to assist in that initiative. Fannie Mae announced it has updated its Servicing Management Default Underwriter […]
Category: Foreclosure
Foreclosure Inventory Rate Drops to Below Pre-Recession Levels
DSNews By: Brian Honea With nearly a 30 percent year-over-year decline in June, the nation’s foreclosure inventory rate—the share of residential homes with a mortgage in some state of foreclosure—is at 1.2 percent, the lowest level since 2007, according to CoreLogic‘s June 2015 National Foreclosure Report released Tuesday. The foreclosure inventory rate has now declined year-over-year […]
FHA Revises Reverse Mortgage Program to Protect Non-Borrowing Spouses From Foreclosure
DSNews By: Brian Honea June 15, 2015 The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Friday announced revisions to its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program that will allow FHA-approved lenders to offer more options to eligible surviving non-borrowing spouses. The revisions announced Friday allow for the deferral of due and payable status for reverse mortgages, hence […]
HUD Widely Praised For Amending HECM Program, Helping Seniors Avoid Foreclosure
DSNews By: Brian Honea Those affected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s decision on Friday, June 12, to allow servicers to allow surviving non-borrowing spouses in HUD’s reverse mortgage program to stay in their home if the mortgage was originated prior to August 4, 2014, widely applauded the Department’s decision […]
New FHA Policy Provides Foreclosure Alternative on Reverse Mortgages
DSNews BY: Brian Honea January 29, 2015 A new policy issued by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Thursday under its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Program will allow reverse mortgage lenders to delay calling HECMs from a surviving non-borrowing spouse following the death of the last surviving borrower. Such a delay on collection […]
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Announce Moratorium On Evictions for Foreclosed Properties
Author: Brian Honea December 9, 2014 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced on Tuesday a moratorium on evictions for single-family foreclosed homes for the holiday season. The GSEs said evictions will not be enforced from December 17, 2014, until January 2, 2015, for single-family homes that have been foreclosed on, meaning that families living in […]
Mortgage Delinquency Rate Continues to Drop
DSNews BY: Colin Robins May 7, 2014 The mortgage delinquency rate declined to 3.61 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2014, according toTransUnion’s latest mortgage report. Overall, the mortgage delinquency rate has dropped 24 percent in the last year, and has experienced nine consecutive quarters of decline. Currently, the rate is […]
HUD: Housing Improves; Still Needs Further Recovery
DSNews BY: Colin Robins May 9, 2014 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its April 2014 Housing Scorecard, noting that home prices remained stable, foreclosure completions continued to their lowest levels since mid-2007, existing home sales stabilized, new home sales slowed, and the administration’s foreclosure mitigation efforts continued to provide […]
Delinquency Rates Drop to Lowest Since 2008
DSNews – By: Colin Robins, February 21, 2014 The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its National Delinquency Survey Thursday, reporting the seasonally adjusted rate for delinquent mortgages is 6.39 percent, the lowest level since 2008. The figure represents mortgage loans for 1 to 4 unit residential properties, and takes into account all loans outstanding at the […]
Decline in Foreclosures Outpaces Decline in Loan Modifications
DSNews By: Carrie Bay, 1/24/2014 An estimated 44,000 homeowners received permanent loan modifications from mortgage servicers during the month of November under both proprietary servicer programs and the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), HOPE NOW reports. While that total represents a 12 percent decrease from the 50,000 loan mods completed in October, the most recent […]
