This is a pretty good video that sums up the current problems. You can see that the unemployment problem is now driving even recent loans into default. 12% of 2007 vintage loans and 8% of 2008 vintage loans are now in trouble. Classic last line, "you can't get a loan mod if you don't have a job". But the banks still have to jump through hoops before they can foreclose.
From another of Diana's reports
There have been a lot of accusations on the blogs and on the air that banks are holding on to REO (bank-owned) foreclosed properties because they don't want to put them on the market and push home prices ever lower.
In digging into this, I got a few interesting answers:
Bank of America:
* Foreclosure sales have been abnormally low since we learned of the pending implementation of the administration’s Making Home Affordable program. From that point, we delayed the initiation of foreclosure proceedings and sales for customers that may eligible for a loan modification under MHA. As a result of this policy, our foreclosure sales in recent months have been as little as half the normal pace we experienced before.
* Until a foreclosure is completed, Bank of America continues to exhaust every possible option to qualify customers for modification or other solutions.
* Now that Making Home Affordable programs are operational, we do project an increase in foreclosures as we exhaust every available option to qualify customers for modifications and other solutions.
* While we have very strong loan modification programs now available, unfortunately, these foreclosure projections reflect the increasing number of customers who will not qualify for loan modification because they have suffered major life events servicers can’t solve...primarily unemployment and underemployment.
* We do not hold foreclosed properties off the market. The vast majority of mortgages serviced by Bank of America are owned by third-party investors. We have an obligation to them to prepare foreclosed properties for market and sell them as efficiently as possible.
2 comments:
Was the bucket analogy really necessary?
Cash flows get crimped due to delinquencies, property values and foreclosures causing the global economy to limp through difficult times. Due to various disconnects in the industrial chain, job markets in various segments are down, property owners are sunk in debts and lenders are skeptical to lend and bail out people from the difficult situation. The income to afford to repay loans is declining highly.
'Notices of default, auction or repossession have reached nearly 2.3 million in the first seven months of the year'
Among the 34 million loans that are tracked by The Office of the Comptroller, the foreclosure rates rose by 22% and surprisingly, this is a 73% increase as compared to the same period last year. This puts forth a question whether the lawmakers are intelligently tackling the problem.
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