The Wall Street firm hunting for mortgage acquisitions is not a depository like JPMorgan Chase...

The original merger agreement, unveiled in late February, was an all-cash deal valued at $1.3 billion.

Maverick, which will take on the Home Point name, services roughly $1 billion in home mortgages.

The Prestwick Group is selling a Fannie/Freddie $167 million bulk deal with a monthly flow component of $15 million to $20 million.

An outside public relations representative for RoundPoint said the company does not comment on M&A rumors.

The selling depository – which MVSG did not name – prefers to retain servicing, but will consider an outright sale.

Glenview is bullish on Ocwen but it also owns a large stake in the nonbank...

With the first quarter coming to a close, the mortgage mergers and acquisitions market shifted into high gear this week as Ocwen Financial stepped up its auction of agency servicing rights and new revelations surfaced that RoundPoint Mortgage was almost sold, but the deal hit a snag over pricing. According to investment banking officials familiar with the RoundPoint situation, a buyer backed away from the transaction because the servicer’s owner, Tavistock Group ...

Is it possible that Ocwen will sell the entire company and not just all of its agency servicing rights?

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