Mortgage Forbearances Rise for the First Time in 3 Weeks

Black Knight reports forbearances rise following three weeks of declines.

Key Details

  • Overall, the number of active forbearance plans is up 79K from last week – erasing roughly half of the improvement seen since the peak of May 22 – with rises seen over each of the past five business days. 
  • As of June 23, 4.68 million homeowners are in forbearance plans, representing 8.8% of all active mortgages, up from 8.7% last week. Together, they represent just over $1 trillion in unpaid principal ($1,025B).
  • Some 6.9% of all GSE-backed loans and 12.5% of all FHA/VA loans are currently in forbearance plans. Another 9.6% of loans in private label securities or banks’ portfolios are also in forbearance.
  • Volumes were up across the board from the week prior with the largest increase among FHA/VA loans (+42K), with smaller increases seen in GSE (+25k) and non-agency (+12k) loans.
  • At today’s level, mortgage servicers may need to advance up to $3.5 billion/month to holders of government-backed mortgage securities on COVID-19-related forbearances. That’s on top of up to $1.4 billion in T&I payments they must make on behalf of borrowers.

No Progress 

Since the beginning of May, the number of active mortgage forbearance plans has ranged between 4.5 million and 5 million. 

The unpaid balance now tops $1 trillion. 

It will become harder and harder to pay that back. I suspect most will eventually roll past due amounts into a new loan. But first, people will have to make a number of on-time full monthly payments.

These loans are not reported to credit agencies as delinquencies, but it is not possible to refinance loans in forbearance until a number of current payments are made.

Disastrous Unemployment Claims

The jobs picture is not making thing any easier. 

Initial claims rose by 1.48 million this week, but continued claims at 19.52 million tell the real story.

20 million people out of work for 8 straight weeks tells the real story.

For details, please see Impossible to Sugarcoat the Disastrous Unemployment Claims

IMF Assessment

Even the perennially late IMF is beginning to catch on.

It’s a Crisis Like No Other: IMF Downgrades US GDP to -8.0%

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Forbearance is free money, as Kevin explains (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJEoOqENWQ). The idea is that you have the option of not paying your mortgage for a year and instead pay it at the end of the loan’s duration, which is often decades away. In the meantime, you can invest the money that you saved by not making mortgage payments. It makes financial sense for a very large percentage of the population to request forbearance. For once, a law was passed that financially benefits the little guy. Watcha gonna do? Feel guilty for taking advantage because only Bezos and Blankfein are deserving of bailouts and handouts?

Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
5 years ago
Reply to  purelogic

“The idea is that you have the option of not paying your mortgage for a year and instead pay it at the end of the loan’s duration, which is often decades away.”

Well, that is nice … if lender agrees to THOSE terms.

Terms I see currently are lump sum as soon as payments restarted … or payback of forbearance in short term (1 to 2 years).

orthodoxideas
orthodoxideas
5 years ago
Reply to  Tony Bennett

As Kevin says, the lender must agree to those terms because it’s the law. They don’t want you to know the law, and they have no interest in giving you a deal that is more favorable to you, so you have to talk them into it.

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Mish
Mish
5 years ago
Reply to  Dave-UT

problem is it is weeks late. Nonetheless a good chart – where is it from?

Dave-UT
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Reply to  Dave-UT

I just put it together in Excel, from the data on page 4 of the weekly DOL bulletin.

Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
5 years ago

“The number of mortgage loans in forbearance plans rose by 79,000 this past week. This was the first jump in three weeks.”

Just as Day follows Night

Delinquencies / Defaults ramp when stimulus fades.

When PPP and $600 extra week end look for Delinquencies to leave the launch pad … in a hurry.

Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
5 years ago

“These loans are not reported to credit agencies as delinquencies,”

Yes … BUT also one reason why credit tightening now.

Lenders can’t determine which borrower applicants are in forbearance … or not. If you do not know borrower’s credit history completely, scrutiny will be ratcheted up on what you can know.

SynergyOne
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5 years ago
Reply to  Tony Bennett

Most banks also report payments being made to the credit agencies. The lack of payments will get factored into credit scores, although I don’t think the hit will be as large.

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njbr
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5 years ago

…Black Knight reports another breathtaking increase in mortgage delinquencies in its “first look” at May loan performance data. The rate, which soared by 90 percent in April, grew another 20.4 percent, to 7.76 percent of all active mortgages. This puts the rate, which had been declining continually to near all-time lows before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, up by 130.8 points from May 2019. This is the highest delinquency rate since late 2011….

ToInfinityandBeyond
ToInfinityandBeyond
5 years ago

Does anyone know how these numbers compare to the number of mortgage delinquencies during the financial crisis? Also, how does this compare to the number of renters who have fallen behind on their monthly rent? If we are to believe that a large number of US households have no significant emergency funds then falling more than one month behind on mortgage payments and rents will be a disaster for those impacted and a significant drag on the recovery. The latest news about the increase in COVID cases and renewed lockdowns does not bode well.

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