Loss mitigation

While sales increased 24% over August, they were still down 78% from the prior year, Auction.com reported.

The forbearance rate continued recovering in lockstep with employment improvement, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

While moratoria keep foreclosures low compared to last year's rates, October activity jumped 20% from September, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The forbearance rate continued recovering in lockstep with employment improvement, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The forbearance rate improved to the a level not seen since early April, but getting back to pre-COVID levels will require employment gains or additional government stimulus measures, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Meanwhile, the delinquency rate is up 89% year-over-year, according to Black Knight.

A booming housing market contrasts with a slow-to-improve job market, making for lopsided improvement in the number of troubled mortgages, according to numbers from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

To continue providing liquidity for lenders, Fannie Mae lengthened the period in which it would continue the purchase of forborne mortgages and pools of mortgage-backed securities into 2021.

The overall forbearance rate was under 6% for the first time since April as another large swath of loans fell out of CARES Act coverage, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

As financial distress mounted, 12.4% of mortgagors missed payments across the second and third quarters of 2020 — and it could get worse, according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association.