Real Estate

Mortgage bailout balloons by half a million more loans in one week

Just over 3.4 million borrowers, representing 6.4% of all mortgages outstanding, are now in forbearance plans.
That’s an increase of 477,000 loans in just one week, or a nearly 9% jump, according to Black Knight, a mortgage data and analytics firm, which is running weekly tallies.
These forbearances represent $754 billion in unpaid principal and include 5.6% of all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans and 8.9% of all FHA/VA loans.

Our View

We have been saying that the world is heading towards a recession since 2015, as the symptoms the caused the last financial crash back in 2008 have never really gone away, and we could see a lot of sticky plasters that were used to prop up housing markets as short-term solutions as opposed to properly addressing the source of the issues to prevent it from happening in the future.