DSNews By: Brian Honea January 31, 2016 Foreclosure activity was way down across the board in 2015, with a noticeable decline in the foreclosure inventory down to its pre-recession level, meaning the backlog of foreclosures continues to clear out at a substantial rate. With nearly half of the residential mortgage loans that began […]
DSNews BY: Brian Honea January 2, 2016 Saturday, October 3, 2015, marked the seven-year anniversary of then-President George W. Bush signing the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) into law in order to help stabilize financial markets and restore Americans’ confidence in the economy. TARP became law in 2008 at the depth of the financial […]
DSNews BY: Brian Honea December 14, 2015 Improving overall performance of first-lien mortgages means fewer delinquencies, and fewer delinquencies have in turn means a declining need for loss mitigation, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s Mortgage Metrics Report for the Third Quarter of 2015. According to the OCC, […]
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 […]
DSNews BY: Brian Honea November 17, 2015 Foreclosures have been continually on the decline nationwide for a few years. While much of the decline can be attributed to a recovering economy, another driver of the drop in foreclosures is increased borrower outreach efforts from various organizations. Borrower outreach events include HUD-approved housing counselors and mortgage […]
DSNews BY: Brian Honea December 3, 2015 Why Are Discounted Distressed Sales Not Pulling Down Non-Distressed Home Prices? When distressed properties account for a large share of all residential home sales, it tends to pull down the prices of non-distressed homes, since foreclosed and REO properties typically sell at a discount to non-distressed […]
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 […]
DSNews By: Brian Honea June 19, 2015 U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) has proposed legislation that will help underwater homeowners avoid foreclosure and remain in their homes, according to an announcement onMenendez’s website. The Preserving American Homeownership Act is intended to help the estimated 5.1 million Americans who are underwater, or owe more on […]
DSNews By: Brian Honea June 2015 Freddie Mac issued a list of “red flags” in a blog entry Monday for distressed borrowers seeking help with their mortgage to watch out for in order to avoid fraud. Citing a Detroit Free Press story from April about Anthony Carta, who was sentenced to 30 to 99 […]
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 […]
