OCC Reports Improvement in Mortgage Performance — 2021-09-28

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported that the performance of first-lien mortgages in the federal banking system improved during the second quarter of 2021. The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report, Second Quarter 2021 showed that 95.0 percent of mortgages included in the report were current and performing at the end of the second quarter of 2021 compared to 91.1 percent at the end of the second quarter of 2020. The second quarter of 2020 was the first full quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The percentage of seriously delinquent mortgages—mortgages that are 60 or more days past due and all mortgages held by bankrupt borrowers whose payments are 30 or more days past due—was 3.8 percent in the second quarter of 2021, compared to 4.6 percent in the prior quarter and 6.8 percent a year ago.