The largest chunk of collateral is located in Florida at 29.6 percent. Maryland is a distant second at 15.3 percent.

In the fourth quarter of last year, Walter/Ditech made a decision to exit the consumer retail channel, selling branches where possible and laying off staff.

Mortgage warehouse providers ended the second quarter with $55.0 billion of commitments on their books, a 10.0 percent sequential improvement in a red-hot origination market, according to survey figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. Compared to the same period a year earlier, commitment volumes were up 12.2 percent. But the real story was in lines drawn and “average outstandings,” which rose substantially. At Southwest Bank, for example, its commitment level increased...[Includes one data table]

More legal headaches for Ocwen? Looks that way...

For depositories, the data generally show more overall scrutiny from the CFPB as well…

Almost 53 percent of the loans in the bond are non-qualified mortgages and many of the rest are higher-priced QMs…

JPM, though, relies heavily on correspondent loan purchases to gather loans while Quicken bills itself as a direct-to-consumer/retail lender.

FBR & Co. raised its estimate on residential loan production for 2016: $1.90 trillion for 2016...

One agent noted: “Consumers around the country continue to receive inaccurate information at the closing table about their title insurance costs...”

Kingstown is known as a value-oriented hedge fund, with roughly $1.5 billion of assets under management.