The Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest Forbearance and Call Volume Survey reported loans now in forbearance decreased by 23 basis points to 7.21% of servicers’ portfolio volume the week of Aug. 9 from 7.44% the previous week. MBA estimates 3.6 million homeowners are in forbearance plans.
Category: News and Trends
MBA: Mortgage Delinquencies Spike in Second Quarter
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s released its Second Quarter National Delinquency Survey, showing the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.22 percent of all loans outstanding.
MBA Chart of the Week: Delinquency Rate for Commercial/Multifamily Mortgages
The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages declined in July. The rate had increased sharply in April at the onset of the pandemic, with 3.6% of loan balances becoming newly delinquent. In May, delinquencies increased again, with a new, but smaller, cohort of newly delinquent loans.
MBA, Trade Groups Issue Joint Statement on GSE Adverse Market Fee
The Mortgage Bankers Association Thursday joined a broad coalition of organizations representing the housing, financial services industries as well as public interest groups issued the following statement on the GSEs’ new adverse market fee.
MBA Mortgage Action Alliance ‘Call to Action’ Targets GSE Refi Fee
In the wake of new directive by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to impose a 50 basis point “Adverse Market Refinance Fee” on most refinance mortgages, effective Sept. 1, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s grassroots advocacy arm, the Mortgage Action Alliance, issued a ‘Call to Action’ urging its 50,000 members to contact their members of Congress and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to roll back the directive.
Distressed Debt Monitor: A Conversation with Mayer Brown Partner Jeffrey O’Neale
MBA NewsLink interviewed Jeffrey O’Neale, a partner in Mayer Brown’s Charlotte, N.C., office and a member of the Real Estate Markets practice.
Analysts Downgrade Hotel Outlook
Full recovery in U.S. hotel demand and room revenue remains unlikely until 2023 and 2024, respectively, said STR, Hendersonville, Tenn., and Tourism Economics, Wayne, Pa. The firms slightly downgraded their hotel outlook report.
ATTOM: Foreclosure Filings Continue Downward Trend Amid Pandemic
This week, the Mortgage Bankers Association releases its 2nd Quarter National Delinquency Survey. Last week, ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, Calif., said foreclosure moratoria stemming from the coronavirus pandemic kept new foreclosure filings low—but warned they could increase dramatically once those moratoria expire.
CRE Professionals Envision COVID-19 Recovery by 2021
Initial concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on multifamily real estate have not been realized, said Berkadia, New York.
CoreLogic: ‘Clouds on The Horizon’ for Many U.S. Homeowners as Delinquency Rates Climb
Ahead of this week’s 2nd Quarter National Delinquency Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association, CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said early-stage and adverse mortgage delinquency rates increased for the second consecutive month, with all 50 states and more than 75% of U.S. metro areas seeing increases in overall delinquency rates.