Bank of America continued to dominate second lien lending with $4.05 billion of originations during the first quarter of 2017…

Nationstar, in particular, has been aggressive in scouting for subservicing clients, and scored a big coup in January…

According to resumes posted on LinkedIn, Stamos had no direct mortgage lending experience whatsoever, nor did his co-founder Ori Zohar.

One industry consultant who expects a lot of activity this year is David Lykken, president of Transformational Mortgage Solutions.

The Nationstar news begs another question: Will Ocwen Financial, which employs thousands of servicing workers overseas, follow suit?

Not all depositories are retreating from the MSR market. The credit union industry reported a combined $197.6 billion in mortgage servicing for others at March 31, up 1.5 percent…

The problem is so bad that HUD is having trouble doing mathematical calculations…

FBR believes continued changes at FHA will benefit private mortgage insurers...

Fairholme is scheduled to talk about its investment in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

The banking industry retreated a little further from the business of servicing mortgages for other investors during the first quarter of 2017, although a change in reporting requirements made the change look a little bigger than it really was. A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of bank call reports shows that commercial banks and savings institutions serviced a total of $3.640 trillion of home mortgages for other investors, typically mortgage-backed securities trusts. These are mortgage servicing rights that the bank owns; in some cases a third party may perform the actual servicing and in others the bank may provide subservicing on MSR it doesn’t own. The March servicing-for-others figure was...[Includes one data table]