The seller of the Alt A servicing portfolio was not identified by name, but IMA described the firm as a “well-capitalized and long standing bank…”

Nonbank mortgage servicers – especially those that aren’t juggernauts in the mortgage lending business – were the fastest-growing segment of the GSE servicing market during the first quarter of 2017. A new Inside The GSEs analysis shows that nonbank servicers accounted for 33.3 percent of the $4.552 trillion supply of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac servicing outstanding at the end of March. The analysis is based on single-family loans in GSE mortgage-backed securities and does not include whole loans held by Fannie and Freddie in portfolio. Nonbanks increased...[Includes two data tables]

DLJ Mortgage Capital, an arm of Credit Suisse, was the winning bidder of all four pools of Fannie Mae’s second reperforming loan sale transaction. The GSE announced the result last week and noted that the deal included 7,508 loans totaling $1.62 billion in unpaid principal balance. The deal, announced on March 14, was...

And now the obvious questions becomes: where does Ocwen go from here? The company can’t possibly be sold because of all the outstanding lawsuits and “legacy” problems...

The secondary market in agency mortgage servicing rights cooled off in the first quarter of 2017 after a hectic end to 2016, according to an exclusive analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Trends. A total of $109.78 billion of agency MSR changed hands during the first three months of the year, down 32.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2016. Part of that was due to a 26.2 percent decline in new business volume at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie ... [Includes three data charts]

Ocwen added: “The substantive allegations in today’s suit are inaccurate and unfounded.”

Nonbanks serviced $2.418 trillion of agency loans at the end of the first quarter, up 21.6 percent from a year ago…

The trade group first launched its GSE task force in late 2012 with 17 initial executive members, including Bob Ryan, a Wells Fargo executive who is now the acting deputy director of the division of conservatorship at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The measure also would allow a recipient of a civil investigative demand to appeal the order to the U.S. District Court system…

The outstanding supply of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae servicing continued to grow during the first quarter of 2017 despite a downturn in new mortgage-backed securities issuance by the three agencies, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. A total of $6.225 trillion of agency single-family MBS was outstanding at the end of March, up 1.4 percent from December 2016. That number does not include agency servicing of whole loans held on the books of Fannie and Freddie, or a smattering of adjustable-rate mortgages in seasoned Freddie securities. Freddie posted...[Includes two data tables]