Six months ago, New Residential Mortgage didn’t own any mortgage servicing rights, though it was active in the market as a buyer of excess servicing and in other forms. It ended March 2017 as the sixth-largest servicer in the industry, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking, and that is probably some kind of record. New Residential reported owned MSR on $252.0 billion of mostly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pools at the end of the first quarter. During the first three months of the year, it acquired $92.5 billion of servicing from CitiMortgage and smaller chunks from United Shore, Residential Credit Solutions and Walter/Ditech. Its reported first-quarter total appears to include a $67.0 billion buy from PHH Mortgage that has not yet closed. In addition, New Residential held...[Includes two data tables]