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There was a slight uptick in foreclosure filings in the U.S. as the pandemic continues and an agreement on a new stimulus to help ailing homeowners has stalled.  Real estate data firm CoreLogic released a report that shows serious delinquencies spiked in June. Without government assistance or major job market improvement by the end of the year, those delinquencies could turn into foreclosures.

 

The CoreLogic report shows that 2.9% percent of U.S. home loans were overdue by 90 to 119 days in June. That’s the highest they’ve been in 21 years, according to CoreLogic’s chief economist Frank Nothaft. He says: “If there are new government programs, maybe that alleviates some of the risks, but given what we know today, we could be looking at a serious delinquency rate that is four times higher at the end of 2021 than it was before the start of the pandemic.”