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Facts & Figures

This is a compilation of stats collected from various news & trade publications over the month of March, 2011.

The high-end (the over $750,000) has seen activity dry up for each of the past two months; New home sales slumped badly in February - down 16.9% MoM or 89% at an annual rate; Empty new units for sale stand at an inventory backlog of 8.9 months' supply; Foreclosure inventory levels (2.2m ) stand at more than 30 times monthly foreclosure sales volume; Vacant homes stand at 11.4%; Shadow inventory (properties whose borrowers are 90 days or more delinquent on their mortgage payments, properties currently or recently in foreclosure, or properties that are real-estate owned) stands at 1.8m properties; The known inventory of homes for sale was 3.7 million at the end of February. There are 5.3 million homes in limbo between foreclosure and the sales market which could take up to 49 months to clear.

Loan deterioration continues in both the prime and the non-agency prime segment with approximately 6.8m mortgages in the United States that are considered non-current; mortgage credit standards are tightening and it's a challenging new world for mortgage servicers too. First, it was the foreclosure crisis forcing servicers to overhaul the way they handle defaulted borrowers. Then it was the "robo-signing" foreclosure controversy that prompted both federal and state regulators to demand that major banks revamp their servicing practices and potentially pay some sort of restitution for foreclosure abuses. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are looking at big changes in their rules as well as how servicing fees are structured. The mortgage servicing business will never be the same.

April
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