The press-shy Cenlar – which has a thrift charter – continued to dominate the subservicing rankings with a market share of 21.3%...

Three large nonbanks led the pack in GSE buybacks during the second quarter: Quicken Loans, Caliber Home Loans and loanDepot…

Back in 2011, large bank servicers – including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan and Bank of America – controlled roughly 94% of the mortgage servicing market, a fact cited in a new report from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Today, just four commercial banks rank among the top 10 servicers.

Read the tea leaves: Just 56.4% of second-quarter loan originations have been pooled in MBS. In recent years, the overall securitization rate has run at about 70%.

Annual adjustments in the GSE loan limit are required by law and FHFA regulations peg them to changes in an index of average house prices maintained by the agency. As of the most recent reading, the loan limit will easily climb over $500,000 in 2020, a threshold that will get people’s attention.

The CFPB will leave all previously disclosed fields intact, including consumers’ narrative descriptions of their complaints...

One source said a $30 billion bulk servicing portfolio went out for bid but was unclear whether the receivables actually traded...

Issuance of deals backed by commercial real estate more than doubled from the first quarter…

Some $57.16 billion of residential mortgages with a business or commercial purpose were originated during the review period, accounting for 3.7% of total originations.

Ocwen Financial remains the largest subprime servicer in the nation with a portfolio north of $62 billion…