Many real estate agents report that appraisal costs have risen and AMCs’ overhead may be responsible...

Most of Altisource's business is tied to Ocwen, which is in the process of ridding its servicing portfolio of agency loans.

The top contributor to the new Credit Suisse jumbo deal is New Penn, which is controlled by MBS co-inventor Lew Ranieri.

Then there was Bert Ely who noted: "In my opinion, American housing policy is leading the country down the same path that led to the last housing bubble..."

A period with protection against liability would allow the CFPB to evaluate any unforeseen issues stemming from TRID.

The Federal Reserve is seen as taking the brunt of nonbank servicer-induced prepayment risk on agency MBS.

Tal Frank, president of the company, noted that mortgages made to physicians maintain a near zero delinquency rate, even those without a downpayment.

The trend reflects the surge in VA home loan originations over the past few years at a time when the FHA has lost market share to private mortgage insurers.

The Blackstone Group, an investment banking powerhouse, has purchased Gateway Funding Services, Horsham, PA, and plans to use the nonbank as its platform to ramp up originations, servicing investments and MBS issuance, according to industry officials familiar with the situation. As Inside MBS & ABS went to press this week, the Blackstone Group had not responded to a media inquiry on the matter. Gateway also could not be reached, but according to ...

Vintage prime adjustable-rate mortgages went delinquent at a rate 30 percent higher when they were securitized privately, according to an economist with the Federal Reserve System. The study was based on mortgages originated in 2005 and 2006, at the height of the aggressive underwriting in the non-agency mortgage market. “We find that private-securitized loans perform worse than observably similar, non-securitized loans, which provides evidence for adverse selection ...