In a statement issued to Inside Mortgage Finance, Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA – a key player in the process – said he is still interested in the topic, noting the panel wants a...

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee this week continued to work on housing-finance reform legislation, with the hope that a bipartisan bill can still be cobbled together in a dysfunctional Congress. As for passage this year, that’s a different matter.

Growth was strongest in the wholesale-broker channel…

The Community Mortgage Lenders of America is also against the concept of guarantors being lenders or having lending affiliates.

Chase Home Finance still held second place in the GSE servicing arena, though its portfolio has been shrinking slightly…

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Pershing Square plans to cut almost one-fifth of its staff. One of the casualties: Ackman’s personal driver…

Several other MSR packages are expected to hit the market in the coming weeks…

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The ongoing growth of New Residential Mortgage resulted in an increase in concentration among the top servicers of single-family Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in the fourth quarter.New Residential, a real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage servicing rights and related assets, has rocketed up the ranks of GSE servicers. After picking up its seller-servicer approvals in the third quarter of 2016, the company had amassed a $229.57 billion MSR portfolio by the end of last year.The REIT so far hasn’t invested in Ginnie Mae servicing. Its Fannie/Freddie holdings grew by 13.5 percent during the fourth quarter, enough to vault over Bank of America to become the third-largest investor in GSE MSR. New Residential pays subservicers to handle loan administration duties.