Citadel Servicing CEO Dan Perl said "the phones are ringing like a son-of-a-gun" at his nonprime lending shop.

The bloodletting in Citigroup's mortgage division may just be starting.

Over the past two years, upwards of $1 billion has been raised by private-equity funds seeking to buy servicing rights in the secondary market.

Art Ringwald, who helped put Bank of America on the mortgage map before departing in 2001, is looking to do "roll-ups," among other things.

Loan officers, so far, have been spared the layoff carnage, but that may change depending on where volumes wind up.

Banking regulators believe delinquency rates on HELOCs soon may rise sharply upward as a significant number of second liens reach the end of their draw period.

The secondary market for mortgage servicing rights continues to spit out new offerings, especially in the bulk arena.

The firm estimates that upwards of $300 billion of MSRs are currently on the auction block with another $1 trillion to $2 trillion to come.

Nationstar's new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission offers little in the way of information on the terms of the new $1 billion facility.

PHH saw its share price spike late last week after rumors spread that it may sell a large block of mortgage servicing rights.