Although depository institutions continued to account for the lion’s share of the mortgage servicing market, nonbank servicers continued to gain ground in late 2014, according to a new market analysis and ranking by Inside Mortgage Finance. Banks, thrifts and credit unions accounted for 71.8 percent of the $7.351 trillion of home mortgages serviced by the 50 largest players in the market as of the end of last year. Nonbank servicers accounted for 28.2 percent of the group total, up from 25.9 percent at the end of 2013. That’s...[Includes two data charts]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is once again asking for authority to charge lenders an administrative support fee to fund information technology upgrades and administrative functions at the FHA, a bid that was shot down by Congress last year. As part of the Obama administration’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal, HUD wants to charge lenders up to $30 million in fees, which would be credited as offsetting collections to the FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance program account. The mortgage industry cautioned...

The firm noted that employment and income fraud peaked in the fourth quarter of 2013 and has declined ever since.

In some cases, loan officers who work for net branch operators can earn 225 to 250 bps per deal.

DocMagic would like to double its nationwide sales staff to 20 by the time 2015 ends.

For the year, the 20 banks earned $3.090 billion from mortgage banking, down 30.5 percent from their income in 2013.

University is based in Hackensack and the purchase gets FFC into the Northern New Jersey market.

Global strategist Peter Schiff, who predicted the housing bust of 2007, sees danger ahead in the U.S. housing market.

Regional banks are reporting significant declines in mortgage-banking income during the fourth quarter, although nearly all institutions continue to earn a profit from the business. A diverse group of 20 regional banks posted a combined $684.2 million in mortgage-banking income for the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of earnings reports. That was down 13.5 percent from the group’s aggregate $790.5 million in ...

Mortgage vendors usually see their fortunes rise and fall based on loan origination volume, but don’t tell that to DocMagic, which is consolidating its hold in the document preparation business. In a year in which residential production fell 34 percent, the Torrance, CA-based DocMagic grew its client base to 7,500, a gain of 1,000 in just over 12 months. The privately held doc prep/software company doesn’t generally disclose revenue figures, but according to ...