Altisource Portfolio Solutions this month announced that a subsidiary will acquire Equator, the software service provider that helps facilitate home sales for four of the six largest servicers as well as the government-sponsored enterprises. The acquisition is valued at a base price of $70 million with an additional $80 million over three years, subject to Equator achieving performance targets. The sale is set to close by mid-September. Altisource said the acquisition diversifies its customer base and ...
No one in the mortgage industry expects that subprime lending will revive much unless it’s the subprime of yesteryear where equity was a key factor in determining whether a borrower should get a loan. The handful of subprime (“hard money,” call it what you will) lenders active today require hefty down payments in the range of 30 percent. The most successful subprime lender in terms of money raised is Citadel Loan Servicing of Irvine, CA, the brainchild of Dan Perl, which raised ... [Includes three briefs]
Mortgage income reported in bank call reports includes earnings from production, loan sales and net servicing results, so industry profits are not tied exclusively to new lending.
Many mortgage firms are hoping that a huge surge in purchase-money deals will compensate greatly for the declining refi market and that layoffs at their shops will be avoided.
The official watchdog of Fannie Mae's regulator has flagged "several opportunities for improvement" in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's oversight of the nearly $12 billion buyback settlement between Bank of America and the GSE announced earlier in the year. In its review of the January BofA/Fannie settlement, FHFA's Office of Inspector General credits the agency for its adherence to its repurchase settlement guidance, an IG-recommended policy that the regulator issued in June 2012. However, FHFA's repurchase guidance and consequently its oversight of the buyback settlement fell short regarding the resolution of compensatory fees and the transfer of mortgage servicing rights, the OIG report found.
The NCUA has filed lawsuits against several investment bankers, including Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Securities and UBS Securities alleging securities law violations in the sale of MBS.
Warehouse lending executives say they are seeing their nonbank clients earn less money this summer, but noted that profits are still strong by historical levels.
In May, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL, flagged the disturbing consumer credit reporting practice of lumping a short sale within the same industry code as a foreclosure in consumer credit reports.
Originations of non-agency jumbo mortgages continued to increase in the second quarter of 2013, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. The growth was fueled by banks offering highly competitive interest rates in an effort to retain jumbos in portfolio. Wells Fargo was the top-ranked jumbo lender through two quarters in 2013, by a wide margin. The lender had $21.87 billion in jumbo originations in the first half of 2013, accounting for 19.4 percent of ... [Includes one data chart]
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