{"id":7206,"date":"2012-05-09T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2012-05-09T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T22:24:31","slug":"more-idahoans-are-paying-their-mortgages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/09\/more-idahoans-are-paying-their-mortgages\/","title":{"rendered":"More Idahoans Are Paying Their Mortgages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7208\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Click on the image above to see the full map.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-9-TransUnion.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7208\" title=\"5-9 TransUnion\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-9-TransUnion-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-9-TransUnion-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/5-9-TransUnion.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">TransUnion<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the image above to see the full map.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The national mortgage delinquency rate went down in the first quarter of this year.\u00a0 It\u2019s an indication of economic improvement, and Idaho beat the national average.<\/p>\n<p>The mortgage delinquency rate is a measure of how many borrowers are more than two months past due on their home loan payments.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/TransUnion-National-Mortgage-Loan-Delinquency-Rates-Hit-Lowest-Level-Since-2009-1654648.htm\" target=\"_blank\">According to credit bureau TransUnion<\/a>, the national rate fell to 5.78 percent in the first three months of this year.\u00a0 It\u2019s the lowest delinquency rate the country has seen since 2009.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Idaho has shown greater progress.\u00a0 Its rate has fallen by 12 percent over the last year, one of the best rates of improvement in the nation.\u00a0 Idaho\u2019s 4.3 percent delinquency rate puts it in the middle of the pack among states.<\/p>\n<p>These are all good signs, but a TransUnion analyst points out the national rate is still three times its pre-recession norm.<\/p>\n<p>Florida and Nevada posted the country&#8217;s highest mortgage delinquency rates.\u00a0 North and South Dakota&#8217;s rates were the best in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national mortgage delinquency rate went down in the first quarter of this year.\u00a0 It\u2019s an indication of economic improvement, and Idaho beat the national average. The mortgage delinquency rate is a measure of how many borrowers are more than two months past due on their home loan payments.\u00a0 According to credit bureau TransUnion, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[40,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}