Thanks to CashCall, its call center operation, Impac is posting strong production numbers and profits…

In the past, Caliber Home Loans has been mentioned as a possible buyer of other firms...

With no blockbuster mergers and a relatively subdued secondary market in mortgage servicing rights, glacial momentum continued to reshape the mortgage servicing business during the third quarter of 2016, according to new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. The two forces that have had the biggest impact over the past few years are the growth of nonbanks and the gradual deconsolidation of the servicing market. The combined portfolio of the 23 nonbanks that ranked among the top 50 servicers as of the end of the third quarter jumped 6.9 percent in just three months. The nonbank share of the $7.389 trillion serviced by the top 50 players in the market rose...[Includes two data tables]

A CID recipient could not disclose its receipt of such a demand to counterparties under financing agreements, loan sales agreements, and purchase and sale agreements, which routinely require such disclosures.

After HomeBridge buys the Sherman Oaks, CA-based lender, the Prospect Mortgage name will disappear, said CEO Peter Norden.

Roughly $4.0 billion, or 72.7 percent, of Nationstar's production came through its consumer direct channel. Purchase loans represented 24 percent of originations.

The four megabanks had significantly greater earnings as a group: $2.684 billion, but the gain was slightly lower, 21.2 percent.

According to the offering circular, 82 percent of the underlying mortgages were sourced through loan brokers...

The sale was brokered by investment banker Houlihan Lokey.

Pingora Loan Servicing, Matrix Financial Services and Arvest Bank were the top acquirers of GSE servicing through co-issuance over the first nine months of the year.