Caliber is worried that if interest rates rise from current levels, the volume of prepayments and mortgage payoffs is likely to decline, which will reduce the cash available to fund servicing-advance obligations.

Consultant David Lykken believes how well a lender can downsize its operations when business slows will determine whether its stock price gets crushed...

The rescission of the bulletin does not mean MSAs are presumably legal. Instead, it will depend on how the business relationship is structured and implemented.

Imperial Fund, an asset management company, is affiliated with A&D, a non-QM lender.

Nearly 75% of loans in the MBS were subject to exterior-only appraisals.

MBA says more than 70 percent of loans in forbearance are now in an extension...

Payoff removals fell 0.4% from July to August, and by 2.8% for FHA loans. The VA program, which sees much heavier refinance activity, recorded a 1.9% increase in payoff removals, edging up to its highest level of the year.

AmeriHome, according to its S-1, earned $275.0 million during the first six months of 2020, slightly less than its combined profit for 2019 and 2018 ($279.5 million.)

Talk about liquidity: the document reveals with this master repurchase deal under its belt, Quicken now has “total funding capacity”of $27.5 billion.

In the first half of 2020, Caliber posted net income of $275.3 million compared to a loss of $59.4 million in the comparable period last year.