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U.S. mortgage delinquency rates remain near historic lows: CoreLogic 

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The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due), accounted for 1.5% home equity , which was up by $1.3 of all mortgages in February, up 10 basis points year over year. percentage points.

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Mortgage delinquencies near all-time low in July: CoreLogic

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mortgage delinquencies remained near a record low in July, with the share of homes entering that status or progressing to later stages either unchanged or lower,” said Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic , in a news release. On home equity , Boesel noted that home-price growth should pick up over the next year.

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HECM program study assesses policy impacts of recent years

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. A study commissioned by the U.S. per square foot, or 3.5 percent of the $223 per-square-foot average for homes.”

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Mortgage delinquency rates trended down in March

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Other contributing factors to the decline were rising home prices and the resulting equity gains providing alternative options to those who may be coming out of forbearance or facing foreclosures, said CoreLogic’s report. . About 2.7% of all mortgages in the U.S. were delinquent in March, dropping 2.2 percentage points from the 4.9%

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Reverse mortgage originators on the referral opportunities they’re watching in 2024

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While he only has access to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) product, that doesn’t dampen the possibilities. So, preserving other assets by utilizing home equity is the other big thing.” They ask, ‘Am I going to run out of money? And then what am I going to do?’

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A repositioning of players in the MSR market is underway

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“[Since Covid], the IMB [independent mortgage bank] group has retained a lot of MSRs that they had not retained historically as a group,” said Nick Smith, founder, managing partner and CEO of private-equity firm Rice Park Capital Management (RPCM), an active MSR buyer. The largest of the pending deals is a $9.42

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Rising interest rates trigger an exuberant MSR market 

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Incenter completed a dozen bulk sales transactions in January involving MSRs for agency-backed loan pools that together had a total unpaid principal balance of $113.2 In fact, five of the deals involved MSRs pegged to loan pools that exceeded $10 billion in unpaid principal balance. Another private-equity player in the MSR space is St.