A $14 billion package of high-touch mortgage servicing rights owned by Bank of America has failed to trade, according to servicing advisors familiar with the transaction.
GSE MBS business hit a post-crisis record in 2012. A new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitization activity reveals that the two GSEs issued a whopping $1.27 trillion of single-family MBS in 2012.
Add former GSE regulator James Lockhart to the growing chorus of industry officials who believe that using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance underwater non-agency mortgages is a bad idea.
Remember the 4.4 million delinquent mortgagors who were done wrong by the nation’s mega-servicers and lost their homes to foreclosure? Remember how the Comptroller of the Currency launched a program in 2011 to let these mortgagors appeal? Well, apparently...
Walter Investment Management Corp. is expanding its presence in the reverse market with an agreement to acquire Security One Lending (S1L), a California-based retail and wholesale reverse mortgage lender, in a stock-purchase deal valued at up to $31 million.
Mortgage portfolio vendor Altisource has completed the spin-off of two of its units, including one that will focus on buying and owning single-family rental assets.
Happy New Year? It is if you’re a mortgage attorney charging billable hours to lenders that are trying to make sense of an array of pending rules coming out of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other agencies.
A new analysis by Public Citizen of a variety of data points on foreclosures paints a grim portrait of the havoc wrought upon homeowners by the Great Recession.
ES Appraisal Services, Jacksonville, FL, has closed its doors, the second national appraisal management company to have gone bust in the past year. It also uses the trade name eValuation Solutions LLC.
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