Upwards of $500 billion of mortgage servicing rights could change hands this year. But maybe that estimate is too low...

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.

The top contributor to the new WinWater deal is PrimeLending with a 15.6 percent share.

Jay Bray, Nationstar’s current CEO, will assume the role of president effective June 1.

Annaly remained the biggest REIT investor in MBS, although its holdings were down 14.9 percent from the fourth quarter.

More trouble for Ocwen: the corporate jet has been yanked!

Ellington believes that one of the biggest opportunities for the company will be products geared toward self-employed borrowers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is trying to put a dollar amount on damages it believes Nomura Holdings and RBS Securities should pay after a federal judge found the companies liable in connection with Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s pre-crisis investments in non-agency MBS. Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said the complex case boiled down to whether the defendants accurately described in the offering documents the mortgages that underlie the securities sold to the government-sponsored enterprises. It was...

Although the FHA has been losing ground for several years to the private MIs, the program saw a surge in refis in March...

To date, the FHFA has received 1,300 comment letters on the proposed ban on captive insurance firms.