Lenders funded an estimated $20 billion of new home-equity lines of credit during the third quarter, a 17.6 percent gain from 2Q, according to IMF.

Loan Care Servicing, an affiliate of Black Knight Financial, subserviced $110.0 billion at Sept. 30, up 47.4 percent from a year ago.

The Merrill borrowers tend to have strong equity positions: the original average combined LTV on the collateral is 54.9 percent.

Scavone was hired by the company in January of 2014.

A year ago, in SEC filings, Pershing Square disclosed that it owned just under 10 percent of Fannie and Freddie common.

Home-equity lending continued to grow during the third quarter of 2014 – in fact, it was the fastest-growing segment of the mortgage market – but depository institutions reported further declines in the unpaid balances of these assets on their balance sheets. Lenders funded an estimated $20 billion of new home-equity lines of credit during the third quarter, up 17.6 percent from the previous three-month period. That compared to a 9.8 percent increase in total mortgage originations during the period, and it was the best quarterly HEL production figure in five years, according to Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. Still, the supply of home-equity loans outstanding fell...[Includes three data charts]

The monitor said Green Tree is working toward addressing issues that caused the servicer to fail eight metrics that were tested in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Skyline CEO Bill Dallas predicted that the nonbank funder could originate almost $4 billion next year, almost double what it produced this year.

The servicing monitor then hired an independent accounting firm, McGladrey, to retest Ocwen’s performance on a number of metrics tied to the national servicing settlement.

The subordinated debt deal will double the capital base of Skyline Lending.