Some mortgage technology consultants, speaking on-background, are prophesizing that the investment will lead to Google moving into the realty market and becoming a direct competitor to traditional Realtors.

Prospect Mortgage had roughly $975 million in committed warehouse lines at yearend. Its three largest providers include UBS Securities, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Fannie Mae.

In early September, in an exclusive report, Inside Mortgage Finance broke the news about funding delays at the company. At the time, a Nationstar spokesman blamed the situation on the changing of document custodian vendors. (It would not name the vendor.)

All of the loans in the Credit Suisse MBS are 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, 4.1 percent of which have 10-year interest-only periods.

When survey participants were asked to what extent the QM rule would affect their business, the most frequent responses were 10.1 percent to 20 percent and 90.1 percent to 100 percent, each of which snagged 20 percent shares of the responses.

Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, is critical of efforts to align the QRM rule with the QM. “Skin in the game is meant to be a systemic stability regulation, but it has instead been pegged to a consumer protection regulation,” he said.

In addition to its advisor role, Steadfast will purchase a participation in each MSR loan made by Customers Bank.

Roughly 96 percent of mortgage bankers earned money in the third quarter. But that wasn't the case in 4Q, according to Richey May & Co.

Add default servicing to the list of things JPM's Jamie Dimon doesn't like about the mortgage industry.

In a rambling, 6-page letter sent to the GSE’s board, Fairholme Managing Member Bruce Berkowitz claims Fannie Mae’s equity securities are now valued by the market at $36 billion.