Mortgage defaults

Onslow Bay is making its debut in the securitization market with $231 million of bonds backed by mortgage loans the real estate investment trust acquired from several lenders, according to Standard & Poor's.

The number of homes in negative equity continued to shrink, but overall levels of negative equity remain high and are holding back a full-scale housing market recovery, according to Zillow.

When news broke in October that New York's Stuyvesant Town was being sold, observers expected the $3 billion loan on the property to be paid off without a glitch.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate improved by double-digit basis points in November, fulfilling Trepp's forecast for a large monthly improvement.

Loan modifications declined 18% during the third quarter to 337,000, a sign of an improving market, according to Hope Now.

The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages improved for most categories of investors in the third quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Pacific Investment Management Co. sued Citigroup Inc. over the bank's role as trustee for $13.8 billion of mortgage-backed securities made toxic when the housing bubble burst, leading to "substantial damages."

Three county governments in metro Atlanta have sued Bank of America for engaging in the practice of equity stripping, where the bank targeted minority borrowers with high-interest mortgage loans.

Fannie Mae has transferred the credit risk on a $12 billion pool of mortgages to reinsurers.

From single-point-of-contact requirements to the need for better self-service options, servicers surveyed by National Mortgage News are taking a much-needed hard look at the full range of customer touch-points that they operate.

Default rates on various types of consumer loans improved in October, according to Standard & Poor's and Experian.

Delinquencies on residential mortgages in the third quarter declined on a national recovery in housing prices and other factors, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The number of underperforming loans transferred to special-servicing status dropped in October, according to Fitch Ratings.

Mortgage delinquency rates continued their double-digit yearly declines in the third quarter, according to TransUnion.

October featured the highest monthly percent increase in foreclosure starts since August 2011, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Home Sales Report released Thursday.

Invitation Homes chose to exercise an option to extend the term of a loan backing the first single-family rental securitization.

The housing recovery is still pushing through full-steam, according to CoreLogic's latest National Foreclosure Report.

Freddie Mac has launched an auction of $1.2 billion of nonperforming loans, while Fannie Mae has announced the two winners of its recent auction of $1.24 billion of nonperforming loans.

Redwood Trust's fourth residential mortgage securitization of the year is backed entirely by 15-year, fixed-rate loans.

Fannie Mae was affected by the same derivatives accounting mismatch that led to Freddie Mac's first quarterly loss in four years. But its bulk and balance sheet provided enough cushion for the larger of the two government-sponsored enterprises to post a profit for the third quarter.