loss mitigation: Practices and procedures that usually do not involve foreclosure carried out with delinquent borrowers with the goal of reducing loss. Examples are pre-foreclosure sales and adding missed interest payments to the principal amount of the mortgage. Loss mitigation, and, more generally, claims handling are performed by lender-servicers, the GSEs and the insurers themselves.
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