by Calculated Risk on 5/21/2020 07:00:00 AM

Note: Loans in forbearance are counted as delinquent in this survey, so the delinquency rate jumped in April.

From Black Knight: Black Knight’s First Look: Past-Due Mortgages Increase by 1.6 Million in April, Largest Single-Month Increase Ever Recorded; Delinquency Rate Nearly Doubles

• 3.6 million homeowners were past due on their mortgages as of the end of April, the largest number since January 2015

• The number includes both homeowners past due on mortgage payments who are not in forbearance, as well as those in forbearance plans who did not make an April mortgage payment

• At 6.45%, the national delinquency rate nearly doubled (+3.06%) from March, the largest single-month increase ever recorded, and nearly three times the previous single-month record set back in late 2008

• There were declines in cure activity among later-stage delinquencies as well, with the number of seriously delinquent mortgages (90+ days) increasing by 56,000 (+14%) from March

• Both foreclosure starts and foreclosure sales hit record lows in April as moratoriums halted foreclosure activity across the country
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According to Black Knight's First Look report for March, the percent of loans delinquent increased 90.2% in April compared to March, and increased 85.8% year-over-year.

The percent of loans in the foreclosure process decreased 3.8% in April and were down 19.3% over the last year.

Black Knight reported the U.S. mortgage delinquency rate (loans 30 or more days past due, but not in foreclosure) was 6.45% in April, up from 3.39% in March.

The percent of loans in the foreclosure process decreased in April to 0.40% from 0.42% in March.

The number of delinquent properties, but not in foreclosure, is up 1,558,000 properties year-over-year, and the number of properties in the foreclosure process is down 48,000 properties year-over-year.

Black Knight: Percent Loans Delinquent and in Foreclosure Process
	Apr 2020	Mar 2020	Apr 2019	Apr 2018
Delinquent	6.45%	3.39%	3.47%	3.67%
In Foreclosure	0.40%	0.42%	0.50%	0.61%
Number of properties:
Number of properties that are delinquent, but not in foreclosure:	3,400,000	1,792,000	1,812,000	1,885,000
Number of properties in foreclosure pre-sale inventory:	211,000	220,000	259,000	314,000
Total Properties	3,611,000	2,013,000	2,072,000	2,199,000