Roughly 86 percent of the mortgages were correspondent originations.

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The $227 million portfolio is top heavy with California product which accounts for roughly 62 percent of the receivables.

According to the offering circular, the package has no delinquencies and a coupon of 3.70 percent.

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The original CO established an on-site compliance monitor at Ocwen, one of the nation’s largest servicers of delinquent loans.

Warehouse lenders increased the dollar volume of their commitments to an estimated $31 billion in the third quarter, a 3.3 percent sequential improvement, according to survey figures compiled byInside Mortgage Finance. Compared to the same quarter a year ago, commitments fell by 11.4 percent. But a commitment to lend is just that. Many nonbank borrowers rack up commitments, but the real test of the health of warehouse lending is in usage rates. At First Tennessee Bank, for example, its commitments were...[Includes one data chart]

At 7.59 percent, the hedge fund is now the third largest institutional investor in PHH.