Recent statistics show that across the nation, mortgage delinquency rates have declined. However, despite the decline in numbers, delinquency rates in the State of Florida are on the rise and can be attributed primarily to the destruction brought by the 2017 hurricane season.
These figures come from a recent CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights Report. The report showed that over all, delinquency rates on mortgages are on the decline nationwide. For a select few states, including Florida, however, that’s not the case. Florida was reported as having the third highest delinquency rate in the nation, coming in at 6.2 percent. It is also noted that this rate is a one percentage point increase from the previous year.
The state with the highest rate of delinquency reported was Mississippi, posting a 7.9 percent delinquency rate. Another state that was touched by the 2017 hurricane season, Texas, posted a high delinquency rate, although its rate did not change from May 2017. Texas, like Florida, was also hit hard during the 2017 hurricane season.
Out of all 50 states, Colorado had the lowest mortgage delinquency rating, coming in at 1.8 percent.
The total mortgage delinquency rate for the nation was reported at 4.2 percent. This figure means that 4.2 percent of all American homes were in some stage of the delinquency process. It should be noted that this figure did drop 0.3 percentage points, coming down from 4.5 percent the previous year. This figure is also the lowest reported for the month of May since May 2006 when the figure was reported at 4.1 percent.
The delinquency rates reported by CoreLogic include all home mortgages or loans that are at least 30 days or more past due, as well as those loans that are in foreclosure. For the month of May alone, the year where the number of mortgages that were delinquent was the highest was in May 2010 when the rate was reported at 11.4 percent nationwide. The years when the rates were the lowest were before the recession in 2007, between the years 2000 and 2006 where the average delinquency mortgage rate was 4.7 percent.
CoreLogic does not only monitor mortgage delinquency rates. The report also showed the rate at which a mortgage moves from one stage of delinquency to the next stage such as the 30 days delinquency to 60-day delinquency to 90-day delinquency stage. The most recent report showed the rate mortgages moved from current to 30 days delinquency was 0.8 percent. This rate did not change from the previous year. However, the rate of mortgages that went from 30 to 60 days was reported at 15.1 percent, up from the previous year when it was reported at 13.8 percent. The number of mortgages that went from 60 days to 90 days was 24.3 percent, which is down from the prior year’s figure of 24.9 percent.
CoreLogic also reports on the foreclosure inventory rate. This rate includes the number of mortgages that are in some stage of the foreclosure procedure. The national figure was reported at 0.5 percent, down from the 2017 figure of 0.7 percent. It should be noted that this year’s number is the lowest it has been since 2006.
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