According to the website ShortSqueeze.com, almost 30.2 million shares of Ocwen are presently being shorted by speculators or 46.48 percent of the float...
According to exclusive figures compiled by Inside Nonconforming Markets, roughly $320.0 billion in subprime mortgages were outstanding at March 31, 2015.
“This should be terrific for our company,” said Michael Nierenberg, New Residential’s president and CEO, during a recent conference call with investors. “We expect sustainable earnings as a result of our long-term deal pipeline.”
Existence of the probe was mentioned in the same paragraph about the NY SEC investigating Ocwen’s business dealings with affiliate companies such as Altisource...
Several hard money lenders are involved in financing flippers, charging interest rates that are several percentage points above the going Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac rate.