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The Daily Insight

What type of debt has the highest delinquency rate?

Author

Mia Phillips

Updated on April 28, 2026

The Federal Reserve System (FRS) provides public data on delinquency rates quarterly across the U.S. financial market. As of the fourth quarter of 2018, the total delinquency rate from loans and leases at commercial banks was 1.79%. Residential real estate loans reported the highest delinquency rate at 2.83%.

What is serious delinquency rate?

The serious delinquency rate — defined as 90 days or more past due, including loans in foreclosure — was 3.2% in May, roughly two times that of a year earlier but down from a recent high of 4.3% in August 2020 and down to the lowest rate since the initial jump in serious delinquencies in June 2020.

What is a CMBS bond?

A commercial mortgage-backed security is a debt asset not dissimilar in structure to a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund. A CMBS is a pool of debt that has been grouped together into a single bond that makes periodic payments to the bond holders.

What is historical loan delinquency?

In finance, it commonly refers to a situation where a borrower is late or overdue on a payment, such as income taxes, a mortgage, an automobile loan, or a credit card account. An account that’s at least 30 days past due is generally considered to be delinquent.

What do banks mean when a loan is 90+ days delinquent?

The 90–day delinquency rate is a measure of serious delinquencies. It captures borrowers that have missed three or more payments. This rate measures more severe economic distress.

How many FHA loans are delinquent?

The FHA delinquency rate decreased 190 basis points to 12.77 percent, and the VA delinquency rate decreased by 115 basis points to 6.47 percent. For each of these three loan types, the delinquency rate reached the lowest level since the first quarter of 2020.

What percentage of mortgages are behind?

Mortgage delinquency rate in the U.S. 2000-2021 In the second quarter of 2020, under the effects of the coronavirus crisis, the mortgage delinquency rate in the United States spiked at 8.22 percent, just one percent down from its peak of 9.3 percent during the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2010.

What is a seriously delinquent loan?

A serious delinquency is when a single-family mortgage is 90 days or more past due and the bank considers the mortgage in danger of default. A past-due mortgage is considered a sign to the lender that the mortgage is at high risk for defaulting.

What is the delinquency rate for CMBS loans?

For property types CMBS 1.0 and 2.0+, the industrial delinquency rate fell two basis points to 0.6 percent, while the office delinquency rate moved up seven basis points to 2.2 percent.

What was the delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily in 2020?

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates varied by capital source in the fourth quarter of 2020. Headline delinquency rates (30+ days delinquent or in foreclosure or REO) for the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market decreased to 7.5%, which is down from 8.6% in the third quarter of 2020.

What is the Trepp CMBS delinquency rate in 2021?

The Trepp CMBS delinquency rate continued to decline in June 2021, but this drop came by the narrowest of margins. The CMBS delinquency rate in June is 6.2 percent, a drop of only one basis point from the May number. The rate has now declined for 12 consecutive months.

What percentage of CMBS loans are non current?

9.3% of CMBS loan balances were non-current, down from 10.0% a month earlier. Non-current rates for other capital sources were more moderate. 2.7% of FHA multifamily and health care loan balances were non-current, down from 3.2% a month earlier.