Auto-Loans Market Healthy Despite Rise in Delinquencies

ID-10056516Today, Experian released their analysis of the current automotive credit trends for the fourth quarter of 2012.  What they found was very interesting considering the upward state the industry has been in as of late.

For the first time in quite a while, there was a rise in delinquencies.  Being late by 60-days increased from the same quarter in 2011.  It rose from .72 to .74 in Q4 of 2012.  That kind of increase in loan delinquencies hasn’t occurred since 2009.

Still, Experian assures that it’s nothing to worry about.  “Overall, our Q4 analysis shows that the auto lending market is extremely health,” said Melinda Zabritski, Experian Automotive’s direct of automotive credit.  “Of course you never want to see an increase in delinquencies, but when you take a step back and look at the market compared to where it was three years ago, we still have remarkable stability.”

A way to look at this increase is due to more loans being issued.  When the finical crisis hit, banks reeled in their lending in fear of the market.  Now that things have finally rebounded for the better, banks have reopened that door and are letting people in.  There’s been a rapid increase in the amount of people asking for a receiving auto loans.  In fact, the market of auto-loans has been one of the fastest growing parts of consumer-finance recently.

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Auto Loans Increasing as Delinquency Decreases

People are starting to get back to work as the economy continues the long road of recovery since the disaster of 2008. The auto industry has seen a similar bounce back of late with the increase of sales since their bankruptcy and bailout. To that end, it’s be easier and easier for those in the sub prime market to get loans. There’s a reason for that as Experian has noted a new trend among people with auto loans.

Experian is saying that consumers have paid their auto loan payment on time in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period of last year. This has also brought down the rate in the average delinquency rate in all lending organizations. To give proper numbers, Experian is showing that the 30-day delinquency rate was 2.52 percent in the second quarter of 2012 and that number was 2.59 percent last year. For people with a delinquency of 60-days , the number was .60 percent last year and is .59 this year.

Melinda Zabritski, director of automotive lending for Experian goes into more detail, “Consumers continue to do an excellent job of paying back their vehicle loans in a timely fashion, and that’s good news for everyone in the industry. Both 30 and 60 day delinquencies are at historic lows, and the percentage of money at risk has dropped as well. This gives lenders needed stability, which filters through the auto industry to consumers in the form of easier to obtain loans.”

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