The average loan size is $215,080, the average loan-to-value ratio 72 percent. The first round of bidding is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 25.

Norcom wants its wholesale account executives to be in the office, not traveling the roads.

Although the Wells Fargo-Ocwen MSR transfer is still on hold, other institutions continue to trim their mortgage servicing portfolios.

Outside of CitiMortgage and SPS, no other servicers received one-star ratings on the seven metrics tested for the Treasury in the first quarter of 2014.

Analysts point out that bank earnings have suffered less than revenues, and many institutions responded quickly by downsizing their mortgage operations, although these cost-cutting efforts won’t show up in expenses immediately.

Bettenburg earned a base salary plus bonuses of roughly $781,742, according to the S-1 statement.

“Sadly, the impact of QMs [qualified mortgages] will never been quantified since most LOs will not originate borderline loans,” said New Jersey broker Brian Benjamin.

At the FHFA, Singh was involved in strategic planning to help attract private capital to the mortgage industry, a key goal of former Acting Director Edward DeMarco…

Miller said the GSEs' profitability also is "driven by income from their retained portfolios, which benefit from being funded through Treasury capital support at low rates the private market cannot obtain."

The number of mortgage companies in California rose 7.8 percent on a sequential basis. Nationwide, there are 392,896 federally registered mortgage loan officers…