This source continued: “If only Castro had put the MIP cut through right after the actuarial report came out, we probably wouldn’t be talking about this right now.”

The last company to go on an MSR acquisition binge this fierce was Ocwen Financial…

On the extreme end, 30 percent expressed dissatisfaction with their current LOS but did not say whether they were ready to toss it overboard…

Fortress also owns roughly 70 percent of Nationstar Mortgage, a stake it has held for quite some time.

New Residential, a publicly traded REIT, will obtain the rights to roughly 780,000 loans ($97 billion) guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Bulk transfers of Freddie Mac MSRs also increased dramatically in 4Q16, more than doubling to $17.52 billion…

Fun fact: Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie accounted for 95.6 percent of multifamily mortgages securitized in 2016…

In the past, Home Point has been a selective buyer of servicing rights and other companies...

The mortgage division will employ loan advisors, providing them with incentives that reward service, not just sales...

Securitization of commercial mortgages was down slightly in 2016 as a result of a sharp drop in the non-agency commercial MBS market, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. Meanwhile, the agency multifamily MBS platforms cranked out record new issuance last year. In total, some $209.03 billion of commercial-property MBS were issued last year, a 3.1 percent drop from 2015. It still ranked as the second most-productive year in commercial MBS issuance since 2007, the year before the financial market meltdown. But non-agency CMBS issuance fell...[Includes one data table]