— The number of past-due mortgages improved again in April, as the national delinquency rate fell to 4.66% from 5.02% in March — New delinquencies rose 23% from March’s record lows, but are down 33% from April 2019, while more than 400,000 (14% of) homeowners past-due on their mortgages became current on payments — Serious delinquencies (loans 90 or more days past due but not yet in foreclosure) saw strong
Read MoreSingleSource, a provider of title and settlement, valuation, real estate-owned (REO) asset management, field services, and document management services, has expanded its title agency licenses into the states of Alabama and New Mexico. The company is approved to issue title insurance throughout the state of Alabama and has Title Plant access in 13 New Mexico counties that comprise approximately 80% of the population. “We are proud to stay true to
Read MoreThe trend is reversed in high-tax states, where an average of 2.5 people leave for every one person who moves in For states with the lowest taxes, an average of four people moved in from other parts of the country for every one person who left over the last eight years, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. The trend is reversed in high-tax states, where
Read MoreLack of Listings and Increasing Supply Constraints Continue to Limit Existing and New Home Sales Expectations for full-year 2021 economic growth were revised upward in May to 7.0 percent, a modest improvement from last month’s projection of 6.8 percent, attributable primarily to stronger-than-expected first quarter real GDP growth and an improved near-term outlook for consumer spending, according to the May 2021 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group.
Read MoreNPL 2021-1 Includes the Company’s Seventeenth Community Impact Pool Offering Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) announced its latest sale of non-performing loans as part of the company’s ongoing effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio, including the company’s seventeenth Community Impact Pool (CIP). CIPs are typically smaller pools of loans that are geographically focused and marketed to encourage participation by non-profit organizations, minority- and women-owned businesses (MWOBs), and
Read MoreEquity-Rich Properties Outnumber Seriously Underwater Homes by Seven-to-One Ratio; Portion of U.S. Homes Considered Equity-Rich Up To 32 Percent; Seriously Underwater Properties Below 5 Percent ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its first-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that 17.8 million residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was
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