Mortgage defaults

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.

Ocwen Financial is back with another round of term notes issued from its Ocwen Master Advance Receivables Trust.

Citigroup plans to issue another $421 million of reperforming residential mortgage bonds from its Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, according to DBRS.

Critical shortcomings in data management and analytics to support servicing rights transfers will become more problematic amid servicer expectations of accelerated activity, according to the results of a National Mortgage News survey.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate continued its year-long improvement in October, with another big improvement predicted for November, according to Trepp.

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has shifted Perry Hilzendeger to head up its mortgage servicing operations from his previous position of running its home loan default business.

Bank of America has paid more than $2.1 billion in consumer relief in the second quarter, making strides in paying the mortgage crisis-related penalties imposed by the Justice Department, an independent monitor announced Tuesday.

Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled shareholders about risky mortgages and its dependence on the electronic mortgage registry known as MERS.

Defaults on commercial mortgage-backed securities declined from the end of the third quarter, compared to the previous quarter, according to Fitch Ratings.

A Georgia real estate investor pleaded guilty this week to property bid rigging and mail fraud, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Atlanta division.

A major investor in insurance giant American International Group is calling on the company to break itself up into three companies to get out from under its designation as one of only four systemically risky nonbanks.