Thursday, September 15, 2011

Huge surge in Bank of America foreclosures, pipeline building esp. key 'judicial' states like New Jersey-CNBC

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9/13/11, "Huge Surge in Bank of America Foreclosures," CNBC

"Bank of America is ramping up its foreclosure processing, sending out far more notices of default to borrowers in August than in previous months, well over 200 percent more month-to-month....

I contacted a Bank of America spokesman, who responded:

"It appears the numbers you noted to me this afternoon generally track with our own numbers for key categories. It should be noted it’s driven more in key states like California and Nevada than overall, and certainly the progress we’re seeing is limited to non-judicial states. Judicial states continue to move very slowly, with key states like New Jersey only beginning to start processing foreclosures again this month."

The foreclosure numbers are down very slightly year-over-year, but only because August 2010 was one of the highest foreclosure months on record, and of course was just before the "robo-signing" scandal was uncovered. Delays in processing have artificially lowered the foreclosure numbers over the past year, so this new surge is likely addressing

  • loans that have been long delinquent, but unaddressed.

In other words, the foreclosure pipeline is filling again."...



via Drudge

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