Secondary activity at the Federal National Mortgage Association was lower in February, though business was better than a year ago. The rate of seriously past-due payments on home loans improved and has not seen any deterioration for two years now, while commercial mortgage delinquency was down 9 basis points for the month.
New business acquisitions totaled $62.187 billion during February at Fannie Mae, the secondary lender said it its monthly operational summary.
Volume eased from $63.876 billion in January but strengthened from the $57.812 billion in new business acquisitions for February 2011.
According to separate data provided by eMBS, Fannie’s issuance of fixed-rate mortgage-backed securities surged to $84 billion in March from $51 billion during February.
Secondary activity totaled $126.063 billion during the first two months of 2012.
The Washington, D.C.-based company’s total book of business grew to $2.6969 trillion as of Feb. 29 from $2.6964 trillion a month earlier. A year earlier, the portfolio was $2.6948 trillion.
The most-recent total included a gross mortgage portfolio of $0.6960 trillion and outstanding mortgage-backed securities of $2.4842 trillion.
Residential delinquency of at least three months dropped to 3.82 percent from 3.90 percent in January. The rate was 4.44 percent at the same point in 2011.
Fannie’s serious delinquency has not increased since February 2010, when it was a revised record 5.59 percent.
Multifamily delinquency of at least two months was also lower, falling to 0.43 percent from 0.52 percent as of Jan. 31 and 0.65 percent as of Feb. 28, 2011.
