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Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 16.1 percent in January compared to a 22.4 percent gain in December. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.777 trillion compared to $2.740 trillion the prior month and $2.339 trillion a year earlier. Purchases and Issuances totaled $120.128 billion and Sales were ($.588) billion. The December numbers were $129.639 billion and ($1.330) billion, respectively. Single-family refinance loan purchase and guarantee volume was $84.5 billion in January compared to $77.6 billion in December, representing a 73 percent share of total single-family mortgage portfolio purchases and issuances, up from 70 percent the previous month. Purchases in Freddie Mac's Mortgage Related Investments Portfolio...(read more)Posted To: MND NewsWire
Loan performance continued to improve in January although the number of delinquencies remains significantly elevated from pre-pandemic levels. Black Knight's first look at the month's loan performance data has both good news and some that is disquieting. The good news is a 121,000-loan decline in the number of loans that are 30 or more days past due but not in foreclosure when compared to the prior month. This reduced the national delinquency rate to 5.85 percent, the first time the rate has been under 6 percent since the pandemic hit in March 2020. The number of seriously delinquent loans, those 90 or more days past due but not in foreclosure, was reduced by 56,000 loans. Black Knight includes loans that are in active forbearance plans in its delinquency numbers if they are non-current. However...(read more)