Ocwen Financial – once the largest buyer of “legacy” mortgage servicing rights in the secondary market – is mostly sitting on the sidelines these days when it comes to buying new product. According to servicing advisors and industry officials familiar with the company, the nonbank has been selectively bidding on smaller pools, staying away from larger deals. Meanwhile, Ocwen still hopes...

With loan originations beginning to taper off this fall and expected to continue that way through yearend, lenders of different stripes likely will step up their sales of mortgage servicing rights in an attempt to make earnings projections. “There’s a ton of activity out there now,” said Tom Piercy, managing member of Interactive Mortgage Advisors, Denver, an MSR advisory and brokerage firm. “We’re the busiest we’ve ever been all year.” Mark Garland, president of MountainView Servicing Group, concurs...

In the non-QM space, Lake Sunapee Bank serves a large number of self-employed borrowers, medical professionals, high net-worth retirees, and first-time homebuyers.

Skyline declined to name the company’s non-QM investor. “We have an investor who has created a shelf,” is all the CEO would say on the topic.

The increase in mortgage debt outstanding in the third quarter of 2013 increasingly looks like an aberration rather than a turning point.

RPM Mortgage would love to expand its presence in East Coast markets. It also recently rolled out a non-QM product.

Hell hath no fury like an agency whose new issuers are not actually issuing (MBS)...

DBRS isn't mincing any words: “Compared with other post-crisis representations and warranties frameworks, this transaction employs a relatively weak standard..."

Broker originations also had a significantly larger average loan amount, $230,082, than the other channels.

Elevated home prices and a smaller supply of distressed properties have prompted many investors to switch from buying to selling.