Advocates for GSE reform looking for savings in the federal budget will be disappointed...

When settlements are first reported rarely does the money change hands right away.

A mid-sized nonbank based in Texas saw two of its top officers resign last week, industry sources confirmed to IMFnews.

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.

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.

Moreover, CMLA wants lower guaranty fees for seller/servicers...

Nationstar, Ocwen, Select Portfolio Servicing and Wells Fargo all need moderate improvement in their HAMP performance.

Naysayers have been predicting the demise of publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trusts for two years now and have been consistently disappointed. It’s hard to say whether things will be different this time around. According to figures compiled by Inside MBS & ABS, it appears that most REITs have been intentionally reducing their MBS holdings over the past several quarters, preparing for the day when bond prices finally fall. At Sept. 30, 16 publicly traded REITs held...[Includes one data chart]

Mortgage securitization rates continued to trend lower through the first nine months of 2014 as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac captured a smaller share of the conventional conforming market. A new Inside MBS & ABS analysis reveals that 70.4 percent of home loans originated during the first nine months of the year were packaged into MBS. For all of 2013, the securitization rate was 78.5 percent, and it reached as high as 84.4 percent in 2009, the first year following the financial meltdown. A key factor is...[Includes one data chart]