10,000,000 More Mortgages Set To Default, Expert Says !

10,000,000 ? That’s a pretty big number…add that to the previous numbers and…

10 million more mortgages set to default, expert says

by JON PRIOR – Tuesday, September 20th, 2011, 10:39 am

>> Roughly 10.4 million mortgages, or one in five > will likely default if Congress refuses to implement new policy changes to prevent and sell more foreclosures,

At the end of the second quarter, more than 2.7 million long-delinquent loans, others in foreclosure and REO properties sat in the shadow inventory, more than double what it was in the first quarter of 2010 (Click to expand the chart below…at link). With the market averaging roughly 90,000 loan liquidations per month, it would take 32 months, nearly three years, to move through the overhang.

And that number is contingent on no other loans going into default.

“Many analysts looking at the housing problem mistakenly assume it is limited to loans that are currently non-performing (or 60-plus days past due). Such borrowers have a high probability of eventually losing their homes. However, the problem also includes loans with a compromised pay history; these are re-defaulting at a rapid rate,” Goodman told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday.

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Source: http://www.housingwire.com/2011/09/20/amherst-to-senate-10-million-more-mortgages-set-to-default

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