Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Housing Crash Fades as Defaults Decline (Bloomberg)

By John Gittelsohn - May 6, 2013 11:30 AM ET

Six years after the start of the foreclosure crisis, American homeowners are paying their mortgages like the housing crash never happened.

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First-time delinquent home loans fell to 0.84 percent of the 50.2 million mortgages in March, the first month below 1 percent since 2007, before a wave of defaults led to the financial crisis, according to a report today by Lender Processing Services Inc. The rate of first-time defaults, defined as loans that went from performing to at least 60 days delinquent, peaked at 2.89 percent in January 2009.
The decline in new problem loans shows that the recovering U.S. economy, falling unemployment and rising home prices, combined with more than four years of banks’ tightening lending standards, are propelling the worst real estate crash since the Great Depression into the rearview mirror.

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