The ABS allows the following mortgage firms to service the assets: Nationstar, New Residential, Select Portfolio Servicing, Specialized Loan Servicing and Walter Investment Management.

FHFA chief Mel Watt also points out that the sale of Fannie’s existing properties will result “in substantial additional financial benefits.”

In trading Thursday, the share price of PHH’s common stock was down almost 2.6 percent...

The supply of single-family home loan debt in early 2016 grew for the fourth consecutive quarter to hit $10.008 trillion, its highest level in three and a half years, according to Federal Reserve data released late last week. The first-quarter gain was a modest 0.2 percent from the end of last year, and a 1.5 percent increase from March 2015. But the servicing market is a slow-changing glacier, and steady increases over the past year are another indicator that the mortgage market has largely recovered from the housing recession. Most of the gain came...[Includes two data tables]

Seneca Mortgage Servicing LLC, which entered the business just three years ago, has decided to outsource the monthly processing of loans to Nationstar, a sign that private-equity firms are no longer so enamored with the returns generated by mortgage servicing rights. According to a statement issued by Nationstar, it will service all of Seneca’s $50 billion portfolio and any rights Seneca might obtain going forward. Moreover, it will take control of the firm’s Depew platform in upstate New York. No terms were disclosed. However, according to interviews with servicing advisors, Seneca – whose backers include The Blackstone Group, EJF Capital and Arbor Commercial Mortgage – may not be...

The 12 firms reported a combined $700.6 million in earnings from their servicing operations, a 1.2 percent decline from the fourth quarter…

A few months back, Nationstar was awarded a $55 billion subservicing contract from a depository…

MBA President Dave Stevens told IMFnews: “We respect the work of Glen [Corso, CMLA director] and his organization greatly...."

S&P Global Ratings warned on Monday that it could downgrade the issuer credit rating of Walter Investment Management later this year due to ongoing problems at the nonbank.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac produced $73.23 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities in May, a solid 6.3 percent increase from April, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside The GSEs.