Category Archives: Foreclosures

Mortgages still strong

From CoreLogic: Loan Performance Insights – June 2023 30 Days or More Delinquent – National In April 2023, 2.8% of mortgages were delinquent by at least 30 days or more including those in foreclosure. This represents a 0.1 percentage point … Continue reading

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Getting uglier in the UK

From CNBC: Mortgage catastrophe brews in Britain as millions are pushed toward insolvency There is intensifying pressure on Britain’s government to do more to help struggling households, with the country’s shadow finance minister warning of a “mortgage catastrophe” as millions … Continue reading

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Tick tick tick

From DSNews: Q1 Foreclosure Activity Trends Upward ATTOM’s Q1 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Reporthas 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 … Continue reading

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Foreclosures coming?

From Patch: NJ Housing Market Troubles Loom As Foreclosures Surge: Reports With inflation still high, foreclosures nearing pre-pandemic levels and a recession potentially looming, new analysis warns that New Jersey has some of the nation’s most vulnerable housing markets. Meanwhile, … Continue reading

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Almost Number 1

From NJ1015: NJ foreclosure rate 2nd-highest in U.S. for March, and all of Q1 New Jersey trailed only Illinois for the highest foreclosure rate in the United States over the first quarter of 2022 as backlogs from pandemic moratoriums continued … Continue reading

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NJ #3 in post-pandemic foreclosures

From the Philly Inquirer: Foreclosure starts tick up in Pennsylvania, N.J., and nationwide Three months after the end of a federal foreclosure moratorium intended to keep people in their homes during the pandemic, foreclosure activity continues to increase across the … Continue reading

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Nothing to see here

From the MPA: Which housing markets have been most vulnerable to COVID? The housing markets in Illinois, New Jersey and Delaware counties are more vulnerable to the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic than elsewhere in the US, according to … Continue reading

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Delinquencies at 20 year low

From CoreLogic: The States Leading in Nationwide Delinquency Rate Drops The overall delinquency rate was 3.8% nationwide in September, down from 4.4% a year earlier and the lowest for the month of September in more than 20 years, according to the latest … Continue reading

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Slay the Zombies

From HousingWire: ATTOM: Zombie foreclosures are ticking down The amount of vacant homes in the U.S. continues to sit at a lull, slowly ticking down, according to a new data set from ATTOM Data Solutions.  In the fourth quarter of 2019, … Continue reading

Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate | 95 Comments

Millennials – Still no home for you

From Curbed: Sorry, millennials: A recession won’t help you buy a house The 2008 financial crisis brought the global economy to its knees and sent American home prices into freefall. For anyone who managed to hang on to their job, savings, … Continue reading

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Insanity

From HousingWire: Appraisals may soon not be required on certain home sales of $400,000 and under Certain home sales of $400,000 and under may soon not need an appraisal, as federal regulators are close to approving a proposal to increase … Continue reading

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Most stable market in…forever?

From CNBC: Housing-market distress is at its lowest in at least 20 years — can it hold?  In the aftermath of the housing crisis, lenders and regulators clamped down hard to make sure we’d never have another bubble like the … Continue reading

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Faster foreclosures come to NJ

From the Star Ledger: Murphy hopes these new laws will put an end to N.J.’s dubious distinction as the nation’s leader in home foreclosures Gov. Phil Murphy signed a package of measures into law Monday that aim to prevent New Jersey from … Continue reading

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Crisis officially over?

From Inman: Delinquency rates fall to pre-housing crisis levels: CoreLogic The number of homeowners failing to make mortgage payments has dipped to levels unseen since before the 2008 housing crisis. Nationwide, only 4.1 percent of homeowners were delinquent on their mortgage in December, … Continue reading

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Don’t believe the hype?

From MarketWatch: Why the housing and mortgage crisis is far from over With major data providers reporting that mortgage delinquencies continue to decline, Wall Street and the pundits are more convinced than ever that the mortgage crisis is dead and … Continue reading

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