KBRA said the borrowers have strong credit profiles, significant home equity, and a weighted-average credit score of 760.

Other servicing brokers are still assessing market conditions with some rate watchers like Barry Habib cautioning against a “head fake” on where things may wind up.

Americans spend an average of 6 hours per day on social and mobile media, which has taken over television viewing.

HUD officials attributed the strong audit results to a much improved single-family forward portfolio…

It’s safe to say that many mortgage CEOs and their attorneys are cheering on Quicken. It’s not often that a lender fights back this strong against the government in an FHA.

Stonegate Mortgage, Ocwen Financial and Nationstar Mortgage all recovered from second-quarter losses with net profits during the most recent cycle.

Two former officials from WinWater joined Window Rock and will help shape the conduit, which will be known as Ventana Loan Services.

Rising interest rates – as long as they don’t rise too much – could spark a boom in servicing sales, predicted Tom Piercy of Incenter Mortgage Advisors.

-“While plaintiffs did not begrudge defendant a reasonable time to review the court’s decision, it is apparent that the defendant has now settled on a legal strategy but is unwilling to disclose that strategy to the extent doing so would require it to produce documents prior to the D.C. Circuit’s anticipated ruling,” Fairholme argued in court papers.

KBW believes that while the capital measurement for forward loans is likely to increase, the chances of a premium cut is low.