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Mortgage Delinquencies Rise Slightly in April

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The monthly mortgage report for April was released today by Freddie Mac. The report notes a rise of just 0.01% in delinquent mortgage payments for single-family homes and a rise of 0.03% on mortgages for multi-family homes. The April delinquency rate for single-family homes is 2.81%. For multi-family homes the rate is 3.51%.

Freddie Mac also noted a -14.1% annualized drop in the size of its mortgage portfolio to $2.03 trillion. That’s the largest decline by far in the past 12 months and represents a nearly 5x reduction over the March annualized rate drop of -2.9%.

Freddie Mac was taken over by the federal government in September 2008 and has been operating ever since as a conservatorship.

The mortgage volume study is available here.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for a673b.bigscoots-temp.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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