Last week, Lawsky noted that Nationstar’s portfolio more than doubled between the end of 2012 and the end of 2013. He asked the nonbank servicer to provide the number of full timers in each unit as well as the number of loans per employee.
It may be temporary, but residential mortgage debt outstanding fell in the fourth quarter. For buyers of servicers that means less product is available (in theory).
The more detailed 'needs-to-improve' list includes Bank of America, CitiMortgage, Nationstar Mortgage, Ocwen Loan Servicing, Select Portfolio Servicing and Wells Fargo.
The mortgage servicing market posted its first gain in more than five years during the third quarter of 2013, but failed to get any traction as the supply of mortgage debt outstanding fell slightly over the last three months of the year. The unpaid balance of home mortgage debt peaked at an all-time high of $11.316 trillion in the first quarter of 2008 and then began a steady five-year decline through the third quarter of last year. But the Federal Reserve reported that the balance of home mortgage debt slid 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. Don’t blame...[Includes two data charts]
Steadfast Capital, in conjunction with its partner, Customers Bank, has launched a program that will offer long-term loans collateralized by mortgage servicing rights to nonbanks. The goal is to help these firms retain MSRs and possibly buy receivables in the secondary market. Until now, most commercial banks would only make one-year “working capital” loans to non-depository mortgage firms. Steadfast and Customers will extend credit with terms of up to six years. “A one-year loan is...
The Democrat and Republican heads of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee this week finally announced an agreement on comprehensive housing finance reform legislation but the release of a detailed bill for public consumption remains forthcoming. For now, it’s impossible to tell how the agreement reached by Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-SD, and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-ID, is any different than the bipartisan bill introduced early last year by Sens. Bob Corker, R-TN, and Mark Warner, D-VA. Johnson and Crapo are expected to release draft legislative language later this week, and move to a markup “in the coming weeks.” Like Corker-Warner, the Johnson-Crapo agreement includes...
By itself, BofA accounted for 79.3 percent of the $606.3 billion shrinkage in commercial bank MSR portfolios during 2013. Where did all that servicing go to?
The Department of Labor has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review an appeals court ruling that put the kibosh on the agency’s policy that mortgage loan officers do not qualify under the administrative exemption to overtime pay. The legal question presented in Thomas E. Perez, Secretary of Labor, et al., petitioners, v. Mortgage Bankers Association, et al., is whether a federal agency must engage in notice-and-comment rulemaking before it can significantly alter an interpretation of an agency regulation. Last October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused...
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