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Home / Intelligence / Serious Delinquency Rate Lowest Since June 2020

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Molly Boesel
Molly Boesel
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  • August 10, 2021

Serious Delinquency Rate Lowest Since June 2020

Loan Performance Insights Report Highlights: May 2021

  • The nation’s overall delinquency rate was 4.7% in May.
  • All U.S. states and metro areas posted annual decreases in their overall delinquency rates.

In May 2021, 4.7% of home mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure)[1], which was a 2.6-percentage point decrease from May 2020 according to the latest CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights Report. However, overall delinquencies were still above the early 2020 pre-pandemic rate of 3.5%.

Overall Delinquency Rates

The share of mortgages that were 30 to 59 days past due — considered early-stage delinquencies — was 1.2% in May 2021, down from 3% in May 2020. The share of mortgages 60 to 89 days past due was 0.3% in May 2021, down sharply from a post-pandemic high of 2.8% in May 2020.

The serious delinquency rate — defined as 90 days or more past due, including loans in foreclosure — was 3.2% in May, roughly two times that of a year earlier but down from a recent high of 4.3% in August 2020 and down to the lowest rate since the initial jump in serious delinquencies in June 2020. The CARES Act provides relief to mortgage holders and has worked to keep delinquencies from progressing to foreclosure and therefore the foreclosure inventory rate — the share of mortgages in some stage of the foreclosure process — remained low at 0.3% in May 2021, unchanged from May 2020. The decrease in the serious delinquency rate from the August high lessens the likelihood of a foreclosure wave later in the year when homeowners emerge from forbearance. In addition, the average homeowner in forbearance has a sizeable amount of equity in their home, which has helped create an additional financial buffer for those struggling to make mortgage payments.

Stage of Delinquency: Rate of Transition

In addition to delinquency rates, CoreLogic tracks the rate at which mortgages transition from one stage of delinquency to the next, such as going from current to 30 days past due (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Current- to 30-Day Transition Rate Shows Sharp Decrease From Year Ago


May 2021

The share of mortgages that transitioned from current to 30 days past due was 0.7% in May 2021 — a decrease from 2.2% in May 2020. Low transition rates indicate that while the rate of mortgages in any stage of delinquency remained elevated, fewer borrowers slipped into delinquency than during the recession.

Figure 2: States With the Highest and Lowest Rate of Mortgages At Least 30 Days Past Due


May 2021

State and Metro Level Delinquencies

Figure 2 shows the states with the highest and lowest share of mortgages 30 days or more delinquent. In May 2021, that rate was highest in Louisiana at 7.9% and lowest in Idaho at 2.4%. All states posted annual decreases in their overall delinquency rates in May 2021 as the employment picture improved across the country compared to a year earlier.    

Figure 3: Percentage of Mortgages At Least 30 Days Past Due For the Ten Largest Metropolitan Areas


May 2021

Figure 3 shows the 30-plus-day past-due rate for May 2021 for 10 large metropolitan areas.[2] Miami had the highest rate at 7.4%, and San Francisco had the lowest rate at 2.8%. Miami’s rate decreased 6.5 percentage points from a year earlier. Outside of the largest 10, all metros recorded a decrease in the overall delinquency rate. Nevertheless, elevated overall delinquency rates remain in some metros, including Texas (Odessa and Laredo), Arkansas (Pine Bluff) and New Jersey (Vineland).

Mortgage delinquencies fell from a year ago with the serious delinquency rate hitting its lowest level since June 2020. Continued improvements in the economy and job market this year will help borrowers remain current on their payments when the forbearance moratorium is lifted later this year, and large increases in home prices have given most borrowers in forbearance enough equity to pay their missed payments and still have some home equity remaining.

© 2021 CoreLogic, Inc. All rights reserved.

[1] Data in this report is provided by TrueStandings Servicing.  https://www.corelogic.com/products/truestandings-servicing.aspx. The CARES Act provided forbearance for borrowers with federally backed mortgage loans who were economically impacted by the pandemic. Borrowers in a forbearance program who have missed a mortgage payment are included in the CoreLogic delinquency statistics, even if the loan servicer has not reported the loan as delinquent to credit repositories.

[2] Metropolitan areas used in this report are the ten most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas. The report uses Metropolitan Divisions where available.

  • Category: Intelligence, Loan Performance Insight, Reports
  • Tags: Housing Market, Loan Performance, Mortgage Delinquency Rate
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Molly Boesel
Molly Boesel
Principal, Economist, Office of the Chief Economist
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