OCC Reports Mortgage Performance for Fourth Quarter of 2024 — 2025-03-24

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported on the performance of first-lien mortgages in the federal banking system during the fourth quarter of 2024. The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report, Fourth Quarter 2024 showed that 97.3 percent of mortgages included in the report were current and performing at the end of the quarter, an increase from 97.2 percent one year earlier. 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 – decreased from the fourth quarter of 2023. Servicers initiated 6,647 new foreclosures in the fourth quarter of 2024 showing a decrease from the previous quarter and a decrease from a year earlier. Servicers completed 7,332 modifications during the fourth quarter of 2024, a 1.6 percent decrease from the previous quarter’s 7,450 modifications.