Add former GSE regulator James Lockhart to the growing chorus of industry officials who believe that using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance underwater non-agency mortgages is a bad idea.

A $14 billion package of high-touch mortgage servicing rights owned by Bank of America has failed to trade, according to servicing advisors familiar with the transaction.

Forget (for now) the story about Bank of America scuttling the sale of $14 billion of high-touch mortgage servicing rights. Inside Mortgage Finance is hearing that over the past several weeks the megabank was looking to unload upwards of $300 billion in MSRs, or at least talking about it to select buyers. BofA, as we pointed out, doesn’t talk about its servicing sales, though it does acknowledge them (sometimes) in its earnings calls with analysts.…

Bank of America Monday morning said it has agreed to sell $306 billion of legacy, bulk mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar Mortgage and Walter Investment Management Corp. for an undisclosed sum. And sources tell Inside Mortgage Finance that more MSR sales are in the works at the bank.

Depository institutions managed to trim the volume of mortgage loans they serviced for other investors during the third quarter of 2012, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call report data.

Fannie Mae is working on building an in-house unit to value mortgage servicing rights, according to industry officials who’ve been briefed on the GSE's plans.

Although 10 servicers have agreed to shell out $8.5 billion as part of the OCC/Federal Reserve foreclosure settlement, it won’t be known for up to a month exactly how much it will cost each bank.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has reinstated a lawsuit that could place a widowed spouse of a deceased reverse mortgage borrower at risk of foreclosure.

The Federal Trade Commission this week shut down a mortgage assistance scam operated out of the Dominican Republic while claiming to be headquartered in Chicago and affiliated with President Obama.

Promontory Financial this week laid off between 750 and 1,000 workers in the Denver area, many of them working on loan reviews tied to delinquent and foreclosed mortgages, industry sources told Inside Mortgage Finance.