FCI Lender Services, the nation’s largest private-money servicer, is sticking its toe in the lending market by teaming up with Blackrock Mortgage Investment to extend credit to investors in single-family rental properties. This month, the Anaheim, CA-based FCI rolled out two SFR products and one tied to investors looking to buy nonperforming mortgages. According to a rate sheet provided to Inside Mortgage Trends, one of the SFR products requires...
The top five servicers still accounted for over half (53.3 percent) of the total for the top 50 servicers, but that was down from 57.0 percent a year ago.
The company, whose share price was hammered this past summer after disappointing 2Q results, promised investors that it will be break even in 2016 or “modestly profitable.”
Since the federal takeover, the Treasury Department has provided $116.1 billion in assistance to Fannie with the GSE returning (once the 3Q dividend is paid) $144.8 billion...
It remains to be seen whether the mortgage servicing market actually grew in the third quarter of 2015, but it’s clear that distribution within the industry continued to shift. The top 50 mortgage servicers had a combined portfolio of $7.300 trillion, including whole loans in portfolio and mortgage servicing rights, at the end of September, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. That was down 0.2 percent from total servicing held by the top 50 companies at the end of the second quarter. The final word on mortgage debt outstanding comes...[Includes two data tables]
A mortgage executive who works in the Florida market said he is tired of seeing his deals slowed down because a title company owned by a builder was forced upon a borrower.
The sale is notable not only for its size, but for the fact that MBS and Morvest – partners on this auction – don’t normally sell servicing rights as part of their advisory practices.
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