LPS' Mortgage Monitor Report Shows Seasonal Increase in April Delinquencies
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The April Mortgage Monitor report released by Lender Processing Services, Inc. (NYSE: LPS) shows an expected historical seasonal increase in delinquencies, but a continuing trend in fewer new problem loans. While April is consistently the month with the largest increases in new delinquencies, in 2011 this increase was the largest it has been in a number of years. At the same time, though delinquencies increased by 2.4 percent in April, they still remain well below the levels of January of this year and more than 25 percent lower than the peak seen in January 2010.
The April data shows that new problem loans, currently at 1.28 percent, have hit three-year lows, with the rate now at less than half of 2009's peak levels. The report also shows the impact of the ongoing process reviews and moratoria as both foreclosure starts and sales decreased significantly in April. Foreclosure starts were down nearly 31 percent from the prior month, while foreclosure sales also declined and remain well below pre-moratoria levels.
Continuing the upward trend seen for more than three years, foreclosure timelines continue to extend. As of the end of April, the average loan in foreclosure was 567 days past due, which is the longest period on record. In fact, 33 percent of loans in foreclosure have not made a payment in more than two years.
As reported in LPS' latest First Look release, other key results from LPS' latest Mortgage Monitor report include:
Total U.S. loan delinquency rate: |
7.97% |
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Month-over-month change in delinquency rate: |
2.4% |
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Total U.S. foreclosure pre-sale inventory rate: |
4.14% |
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Month-over-month change in foreclosure pre-sale inventory rate: |
-1.6% |
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States with highest percentage of non-current* loans: |
FL, NV, MS, NJ, GA |
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States with the lowest percentage of non-current* loans: |
MT, WY, AK, SD, ND |
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*Non-current totals combine foreclosures and delinquencies as a percent of active loans in that state. |
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Notes: |
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(1) Totals are extrapolated based on LPS Applied Analytics' loan-level database of mortgage assets. |
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(2) All whole numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand. |
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About the Mortgage Monitor
LPS manages the nation's leading repository of loan-level residential mortgage data and performance information on nearly 40 million loans across the spectrum of credit products. The company's research experts carefully analyze this data to produce a summary supplemented by dozens of charts and graphs that reflect trend and point-in-time observations for LPS' monthly Mortgage Monitor Report. To review the full report, visit http://www.lpsvcs.com/NEWSROOM/INDUSTRYDATA/Pages/default.aspx.
About Lender Processing Services
Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) is a leading provider of integrated technology, services and mortgage performance data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries. LPS offers solutions that span the mortgage continuum, including lead generation, origination, servicing, workflow automation (Desktop®), portfolio retention and default, augmented by the company's award-winning customer support and professional services. Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages by dollar volume are serviced using LPS' Mortgage Servicing Package (MSP). LPS also offers proprietary mortgage and real estate data and analytics for the mortgage and capital markets industries. For more information about LPS, visit www.lpsvcs.com.
SOURCE Lender Processing Services, Inc.
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