May 11, 2012 (Jeff Alan)

Wells Fargo reports that 9,447 active trial or completed loan modifications were started in March bringing the total amount of trial and completed modifications to 749,806 since its mortgage relief efforts began in March 2009.

About 77 percent of those loans, 7,244, were modified through the company’s own loan modification programs while the remaining 23 percent, 2,203, were modified through the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).

Since Wells Fargo’s mortgage relief efforts began in March 2009, about 84 percent of their total active trial and completed loan modifications, 630,981, have been modified through the company’s own loan modification programs while the remaining 16 percent, 118,825, were modified through HAMP.

Over ninety-three percent of Wells Fargo’s loan customers remained current on their home loans through the fourth quarter of 2011 and less than two percent of the owner-occupied loans in their mortgage servicing portfolio have resulted in a foreclosure sale over the last year.

According to the latest information released in the Obama Administration’s April Housing Scorecard, out of the top 10 mortgage servicers in the United States, only Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase had exceeded Wells Fargo in the number of HAMP trial modifications in March.

Since the government’s mortgage relief efforts began in 2009, among the top ten mortgage servicers in the country, the number of active permanent loan modifications completed by Wells Fargo under HAMP has only been surpassed by Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, all three of which make up almost half of all permanent HAMP loan modifications.

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Wells Fargo