Loss Mitigation

On average, it may take U.S. homeowners 30 years to pay off their mortgage. Click through to find the nation’s cities with the most unpaid mortgages and cities that have the most paid-off homes.

The number of vacant properties sits at well over 1.2 million dwellings amid a serious inventory crunch. Click through to find out what percentage of vacant homes are considered “zombie properties.”

A new report takes a deeper look at HUD’s Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH) Program. Click through to read about suggested improvements that should be made before future implementation of the program.

After joining the nationwide mortgage subservicer earlier this year as CFO, former head of CitiMortgage and WaMu Home Loans David Schneider has been named new company President.

The MBA reports that volatile interest rates and stresses on some property markets have increased delinquency rates backed by commercial real estate properties in Q2, trending upward alongside the national residential mortgage delinquency rate.

The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve have outlined a framework for the safe and sound management of exposure to climate-related financial risks for large financial institutions. Here’s what that means for the industry.

In an effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio, Freddie Mac has sold 88 non-performing residential first-lien loans as part of the GSE’s Extended Timeline Pool Offering.

ICE data shows a year-over-year rise of 13 basis points year over year, marking only the second—and largest—annual increase in the past 2.5 years.

A recent podcast examined mortgage fraud, with a particular focus on the proliferation of occupancy fraud, which has significantly increased in recent years. Here’s what the podcast reveals.

CRT, or the Credit Risk Transfer program, was launched by Fannie Mae 10 years ago. A new Fannie Mae blog examines how the program has performed since its inception.