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Rate of Forbearance Improvement Slows as March Expiration Looms
Friday, March 5, 2021
As
Black Knight has repeatedly predicted, end of February expirations drove the
number of mortgage loans in forbearance lower this past week. There was a
decline of 22,000 loans in forbearance plans during the week ended March 2, an
0.8 percent decline. Black Knight says that there are still more than 100,000
loans in plans that expired at the end of last month that may be under review by
servicers for extension or removals. Despite weekly improvement,
the monthly rate of decrease slowed from 2.0 percent to 1.3 percent. At
the end of the reporting period, the company estimates that 2.69 million
homeowners remain in forbearance plans, 5.1 percent of those with a mortgage
loan. The largest improvement over the past week was in loans serviced for FHA
and the VA. They declined by 13,000 to 1,113 million
loans or 9.2 percent of those portfolios. Forborne loans serviced for Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) fell by 8,000 to 895,000 or 3.2 percent of the
total. Those serviced for bank portfolios or investors in private label
securities (PLS) improved by a modest 1,000 loans to 677,000 or 5.2 percent.
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