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Mortgage Delinquencies Jump Over 10 Percent

Dennis Norman

Deceleration in Rise of Mortgage Delinquencies Short Lived

Back in July, 2009 when speaking in North Carolina President Barack Obama announced “we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession“. My thoughts then were that was very optimistic and I didn’t agree (for whatever that is worth). Since then [...]

November Foreclosure Rate in U.S. Up 77 Percent from a year ago

Dennis Norman

The foreclosure rate in the U.S. for the month of November, 2009 was 3.09 percent, a 77.6 percent increase from November, 2008 when the rate was 1.74 percent according to a report by First American CoreLogic.

In addition, the report showed that the number of borrowers that are seriously delinquent on their

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Setting Up the Next Leg Down in Housing

Loose lending standards in government-backed mortgages is setting up the next wave of defaults and sharp declines in housing prices. 

Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds

Beneath the hype that housing has bottomed is an ugly little scenario: lending standards are still loose and the low-down payment, high-risk loans being guaranteed by government agencies are setting [...]

Short sales up 268 percent from a year ago; Serious mortgage delinquencies up 147 percent for same period

Dennis Norman

Yesterday the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its foreclosure prevention report for July, 2009 for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loans.  Based upon the data in the report I would say it’s safe to say the housing market is going to continue to be challenged for a while. 

Ah, the opportunities though for the [...]

Foreclosures; No end in site

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

Foreclosures have been providing a steady supply of homes to the investor market for a while now and it appears foreclosures will not slow down anytime soon.  There are many companies that track foreclosure activity as well as provide investors with information on foreclosures and while their take on things varies [...]

Foreclosures and Short-Sales on the rise

By: Dennis Norman

Today the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of the Thrift Supervision (OTS) released their mortgage metrics report for 1st quarter 2009.  

The report shows foreclosures continued to increase during the first quarter of this year.  However the report also shows a significant increase in short-sales which I discussed yesterday [...]

Foreclosure rate drops; Re-default rate soars…

By: Dennis Norman

 

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision issed a report on mortgage performance which showed an increase in delinquencies, foreclosures in process, and other actions leading to home forfeiture but offered a little ray of light with a drop in “newly initiated” foreclosures by 2.6% from the [...]