A new report from ATOM Data Solutions says concerns about rising sea levels “remain a rarity among most South Florida homeowners and investors"...

Since the election, Tozer has met with the Trump Department of Housing and Urban Development “landing team” once, for a 90 minute meeting that included Shawn Krause…

Consumer advocates were among the groups that opposed NYCB’s acquisition of Astoria…

Barry Habib of MBS Highway told us the Dow will hit 20,000 and then around mid-January stocks will pull back but “not crash.”

Treasury controls the senior preferred stock of the GSEs. The junior preferred and common continues to trade in the over-the-counter market and through private transactions. The latter two classes of stock are considered speculative in nature.

PHH had been subservicing the loans for HSBC and the new owner of the MSRs had opted to bring the loans inhouse instead of using PHH…

Commercial banks reduced their securitized servicing by 1.9 percent during the third quarter, though they still accounted for 52.5 percent of that market.

The 'Trump Bump' Hits the MSR market as well...

If rates don’t improve in the next few months, one area where lenders will try to save money is on loan officer compensation...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to launch a study of mortgage servicing in 2017 and research ways to reach underserved borrower groups, but the new “scorecard” for the government-sponsored enterprises doesn’t portend big changes in their credit-risk transfer programs or the emerging common securitization platform. The most significant new initiative in the 2017 scorecard released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency this week is a new project to assess the mortgage servicing business model. The language is somewhat vague and broad-reaching: “initiate a multiyear assessment of both the challenges facing the mortgage servicing market and potential solutions for identified issues.” The new game plan specifically mentions...