In years past, some have likened Fannie and Freddie to being giant thrift institutions...

Maverick, which will take on the Home Point name, services roughly $1 billion in home mortgages.

The nation’s two largest nonbank servicers – Ocwen Financial and Nationstar Mortgage – have relatively low replenishment rates, meaning it’s harder for them to replace portfolio runoff through new production, according to a new analysis from Inside Mortgage Finance. Based on full-year origination and servicing figures for 2014, Ocwen was only originating enough new loans to replace 1.03 percent of its servicing portfolio. Nationstar had a somewhat stronger replenishment rate of 4.46 percent. In the overall market, 2014 originations of $1.24 trillion equaled...[Includes one data chart]

Residential originations for the group fell 45.7 percent from 2013, indicating that profit margins shrank slightly more than production volume.

Some 16 single-borrower SFR rental deals have been issued since the market came to life in November 2013.

The Prestwick Group is selling a Fannie/Freddie $167 million bulk deal with a monthly flow component of $15 million to $20 million.

An outside public relations representative for RoundPoint said the company does not comment on M&A rumors.

To understand the plight of the publicly traded REO vendor, you first have to understand where it came from...

In some cities, future price gains may be hard to come by, especially if home flippers and investors bolt.

Loan modification tactics varied based on whether a mortgage was serviced for Fannie/Freddie or was non-agency in nature.