Residential mortgage borrowers are missing more payments and taking advantage of payment holiday programs at a higher rate than comparable-credit borrowers of auto loans and credit cards, said Fitch Ratings New York.
Category: News and Trends
The CMBS Market During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Moody’s Investors Service
MBA NewsLink interviewed Keith Banhazl, Victor Calanog and Nick Levidy from Moody’s, New York.
MBA: Share of Loans in Forbearance Falls for 6th Straight Week
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest Forbearance and Call Volume Survey reported loans in forbearance decreased by 6 basis points to 7.74% of servicers’ volume as of July 19, from 7.80% the prior week. MBA now estimates 3.9 million homeowners are in forbearance plans.
S&P: Retail REITs Could Face Distress Until At Least 2021
S&P Global Ratings, New York, said retail real estate investment trusts, already buffeted by the coronavirus pandemic and dwindling brick-and-mortar revenues, could see an increase in downgrades in coming quarters with little chance of recovery before next year.
HUD Terminates Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule
The Trump Administration terminated the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, replacing it with a new rule that HUD Secretary Ben Carson said would ease burdens for local communities dealing with fair housing.
Black Knight: Mortgage Delinquencies Improve for the First Time Since January; Serious Delinquencies Surge to 9-Year High
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said after rising from 3.2% in January to 7.8% in May, the national delinquency rate improved for the first time in five months, falling to 7.6% in June as the overall number of past-due mortgages declined by 98,000.
Second-Quarter Home Seller Profits Rise to 36%
ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, Calif., said its second-quarter 2020 U.S. Home Sales Report showed home sellers nationwide realized a gain of $75,971 on the typical sale, up from the $66,500 in the first quarter and from $65,250 a year ago.
Keeping Current With Midland Loan Services’ Tim Steward
MBA NewsLink interviewed Timothy E. Steward, Senior Vice President and co-head of Midland Loan Services, a PNC Real Estate business. Steward leads a team of more than 500 professionals responsible for delivering loan servicing, asset management and technology solutions to the commercial real estate finance industry.
Maurice Jourdain-Earl of ComplianceTech on CARES Act Relief and Racial Disparities in Mortgage Forbearance
MBA NewsLink talked with Maurice Jourdain-Earl, Managing Director of ComplianceTech, McLean, Va., a provider of software and services to enable fair and responsible lending compliance. He is a noted speaker and writer on HMDA and fair lending practices and has appeared frequently at MBA events and sits on MBA’s member-led Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee.
FHFA Leaves 2021 GSE Housing Goals Unchanged
With current housing goals set to expire in December, and amid economic uncertainty stemming from the lingering coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Housing Finance Agency yesterday left 2021 housing goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unchanged from the previous three years.