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The number of home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are 60 days or more past due dropped from 1.6 percent to 1.4 percent at the end of the first quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s foreclosure prevention report released today.

A majority of bankers -- 77 percent -- agree that burdensome mortgage regulations continue to have a negative effect on business production, according to ABA’s 25th annual Real Estate Lending Survey released today.

The share of current and performing first-lien mortgages in the fourth quarter of 2017 remained unchanged from a year prior at 94.5 percent, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released today by the OCC.

The Federal Housing Administration today announced a new option that allows FHA-insured homeowners whose homes were damaged by recent natural disasters to remain in their homes, and also reduces losses that would otherwise negatively affect FHA’s mutual mortgage insurance fund.

The share of current and performing first-lien mortgages remained unchanged from a year prior at 94.8 percent, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released on Friday by the OCC.

The number of home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are 60 days or more past due or are in the foreclosure process ticked up in the third quarter of 2017.

The share of current and performing first-lien mortgages rose to 95.6 percent for the first quarter, up from 94.9 percent a year earlier, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released today by the OCC.

The number of home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are 60 days or more past due or are in the foreclosure process fell 10 percent in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2008.

The share of current and performing first-lien mortgages was 94.7 percent for the fourth quarter of 2016, up from 94.1 percent a year earlier, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released today by the OCC.