HUD Secretary Castro said the MMIF is on a “positive trajectory,” though he admits the premium reduction could delay its recovery...

A spokesman for Impac said the purchase price will be disclosed “when the final docs are filed.”

In 2013, CashCall sold roughly $10 billion of residential servicing rights – a sale that may have been forced by Fannie Mae, sources told IMF.

It was the strongest refi volume of the year, and it helped offset a 9.8 percent drop in purchase-mortgage securitization over the same period.

Moody’s noted that 88.1 percent of the mortgages slated for securitization have been modified.

On an annualized basis, Ocwen Financial is still profitable and has a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.

Of course, we’re waiting to see what Republicans on Capitol Hill think of a cut in FHA premiums…

The National Association of Realtors recently estimated that in 2014, nearly 234,000 creditworthy borrowers were priced out of the housing market because of high FHA insurance premiums.

Molly Boesel, a senior economist at CoreLogic, said mortgages originated in the past four years are among the most pristine loans made in the past two decades.

“Auctions would determine the market prices of those guarantees and allocate them to the lenders who most valued them,” the CBO said.