Mortgage defaults

Amherst Holdings plans to market $400 million worth of bonds backed by single-family rental homes, according to Trepp.

The nonperforming loan situation continued to improve in November, as the national inventory of foreclosed homes dropped to pre-recession levels, according to CoreLogic.

Consumers increasingly fell behind on their payments in several loan categories in the third quarter as economic growth cooled.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate finished 2015 at a six-year low, according to Fitch Ratings.

Wells Fargo & Co. has promoted Carmen Bell to senior vice president of its mortgage default servicing unit.

Home prices across the country rose 6.5% year-over-year in November 2015, including distressed sales, according to CoreLogic.

The delinquency rate on commercial mortgage-backed securities rose slightly in December, according to Trepp.

The plunge in oil prices may jeopardize almost $125 million of securitized loans backed by real estate in North Dakota, as drillers in the state scale back operations, Morningstar Credit Ratings said.

The strong recovery in commercial real estate has enabled borrowers to resolve a lot of problem loans made before the financial crisis, but Fitch Ratings continues to expect no recoveries from "hope notes."

The rate of mortgage loan delinquencies fell in November, according to Black Knight Financial Services.