Fewer home loans are in trouble these days, but despite some improvements, the nation is not even halfway through cleaning up the foreclosure mess, industry experts said.
It could take three or four years to return to a typical pattern of delinquencies and foreclosures, the Mortgage Bankers Assn. said in releasing its quarterly delinquency report Thursday. ...
But the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonpartisan advocacy group that accurately predicted a foreclosure tidal wave in 2006, issued its own assessment Thursday: 2.7 million American households had lost their homes as of February, with an even greater number to come.
The advocacy group, which analyzed 27 million home loans made from 2004 through 2008, estimated that an additional 3.6 million mortgages were in foreclosure or likely to fail.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Over half yet to go...
The LA Times yesterday supported our expectation that the unwind of the housing bubble still has a long way to go. Under the upbeat title "Fewer loans going bad" the opening paragraphs say it:
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So glad to see you post. I'm a lurker and generally don't comment, but I miss your posts
Thanks, Anon! I occasionally still check in with some of the classic bubble blogs to see if there's anything new. This story isn't over, and I'll keep covering it.
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