WASHINGTON, DC -- HOPE NOW, the private sector alliance of mortgage servicers, counselors, and investors that has been working aggressively to prevent foreclosures, today announced that nearly 2.3 million homeowners have avoided foreclosure and have been able to stay in their homes due to the continuing efforts of HOPE NOW and the broader mortgage industry.
In August 2008, mortgage servicers helped homeowners avoid foreclosure by completing more than 189,000 mortgage workouts. Workouts include both modifications to the terms of existing mortgages and repayment plans. Barring a life event such as a job loss, death, or illness, all workouts are intended to enable a homeowner to remain in that home as long as he or she wishes to do so.
According to Faith Schwartz, HOPE NOW's executive director, the latest results show that the industry is continuing to work hard to help homeowners. "Without HOPE NOW, the current mortgage and financial crises would be more serious and harder to turn around," she said. "We will continue to work hard to help homeowners and stabilize communities."
The HOPE NOW report estimates that on an industry-wide basis:
-- Mortgage servicers have helped 2.26 million homeowners avoid
foreclosure since July 2007.
-- Mortgage servicers provided loan workouts for approximately 189,000
borrowers in August 2008.
-- In August, approximately 110,000 homeowners received repayment plans;
approximately 79,000 received loan modifications.
-- Nearly 53 percent of homeowners with subprime loans who received
workouts through mortgage servicers received modifications.
A summary table of the results is attached and can be found at http://www.hopenow.com/media/press_release.php.
HOPE NOW also announced today the results of a separate survey of subprime adjustable rate mortgages with rates resetting in 2008. The results, reported by nine companies representing approximately 60 percent of subprime loans, are as follows:
-- Approximately 1.1 million subprime loans were scheduled to reset
between January and August 2008.
-- Since rates began to reset on these loans in January 2008, those loans
that were current at reset and subsequently started the foreclosure
process account for 1.2 percent of remaining loans.
-- Nearly 91,000 of the 1.1 million loans have been modified. Over 75
percent of these modifications are for 5 years or longer.
-- Almost 449,000 of the subprime adjustable rate loans that were
originally scheduled to reset during this period were paid in full
when the homeowner refinanced the loan or sold the property.
ABOUT HOPE NOW
HOPE NOW is an alliance of counselors, mortgage market participants, and mortgage servicers that is working to help as many homeowners as possible avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes. For more information, including a full list of members, go to www.hopenow.com
HOPE NOW coordinates a nationwide campaign to reach homeowners who may be at risk of losing their homes. So far, HOPE NOW has sent almost 1.8 million letters. About 17 percent of homeowners receiving the HOPE NOW-coordinated letters have contacted their servicer, six times more than the routine 2-3 percent response rate servicers receive when they send their own mailings.
In the past seven months, HOPE NOW has connected thousands of homeowners with their lender and/or a HUD-certified housing counselor at workshops in 22 cities. Additional workshops are being scheduled around the country.
In addition, HOPE NOW members recently agreed to make substantial additional efforts to contact homeowners whose mortgages will reset in the coming months and to further expedite the process used to determine how best to keep them in their homes.
The Homeownership Preservation Foundation's Homeowner's HOPE(TM) Hotline (888-995-HOPE(TM)) - available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year - receives an average of more than 4,000 calls a day. There is no cost to homeowners for contacting a nonprofit advisor by calling 888-995-HOPE(TM).
WORKOUT PLANS (Repayment Plans + Modifications) and
foreclosure sales
July 2007 - August 2008
BORROWER LOAN WORKOUT PLANS
2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 Total
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 July August
Repayment Plans
322,909 333,393 312,225 302,561 112,123 110,078 1,493,289
Prime 120,254 136,364 146,586 141,836 57,963 58,713 661,714
Subprime 202,656 197,029 165,639 160,725 54,161 51,365 831,574
Modifications
75,326 140,401 170,090 220,326 80,097 78,853 765,093
Prime 29,999 37,162 48,022 56,179 22,191 21,570 215,122
Subprime 45,327 103,239 122,068 164,147 57,906 57,283 549,971
Workout Plans
398,236 473,794 482,315 522,887 192,220 188,931 2,258,382
Prime 150,253 173,526 194,607 198,015 80,154 80,283 876,836
Subprime 247,983 300,268 287,708 324,872 112,067 108,649 1,381,545
foreclosure sales
2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 Total
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 July August
foreclosure sales
135,330 151,403 202,970 246,192 91,902 86,594 914,390
Prime 53,760 59,750 82,819 108,202 44,236 43,014 391,781
Subprime 81,570 91,653 120,151 137,990 47,665 43,580 522,609
Workout Plans = Repayment Plans + Modifications
Repayment Plans:
A plan that allows the borrower to become current and catch up on missed payments that are appropriate to the borrower's circumstances, which involves deferring or rescheduling payments but the full amount of the loan is expected ultimately to be paid and within the original contractual maturity of the loan.
Modifications:
A modification occurs any time any term of the original loan contract is permanently altered. This can involve a reduction in the interest rate, forgiveness of a portion of principal or extension of the maturity date of the loan.
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Source: HOPE NOW
CONTACT: Kara Ross, +1-202-683-3117; Kate McGann, +1-202-683-3143; or
Aleis Stokes, +1-202-557-2741, all for HOPE NOW
Web Site: http://www.hopenow.com/
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