Mortgage servicing rights are playing an important role in how mortgage lenders finance their businesses, experts say, and a more balanced MSR market is expected this year despite persistent regulatory concerns and worries about high servicing costs. It was clear from a panel discussion at the Urban Institute this week that MSRs have grown in importance as a form of collateral and that it continues to divide lender/servicers and consumer advocates. Overall, six panelists agreed that certain reforms are needed if the market expects to thrive in the current environment. Stephen Fleming, senior vice president with Phoenix Capital, expects...

Nearly every firm tracked in the Inside Mortgage Finance Large Servicer Delinquency Index reported improvements in mortgage performance during the first quarter...

Redwood posted just $2 million in income from residential mortgage banking activities in the first quarter.

On the plus side, the publicly traded nonbank funded $4.2 billion during Q1, a 16 percent sequential improvement.

In the first quarter, Freddie Mac's net interest income rose on a sequential basis by a mere 2 percent to $3.647 billion.

Fannie Mae reported Tuesday that the GSE issued $10.4 billion of multifamily MBS in the first quarter of 2015, primarily through its delegated underwriting and servicing program.

“Some companies were proactive in addressing these deficiencies in a timely fashion while others' control structures remained problematic,” the MMC said.

Quicken is controlled by Michigan businessman Dan Gilbert, who has been aggressively purchasing Detroit area real estate the past few years.

Hatteras held $123.3 million of jumbo ARMs at March 31, a 296 percent increase over three months.

Late last month, Sterne Agee rated Altisource an “underperform,” which is a nice way of telling investors to sell the stock…