HUD may be forced to cut some of its vendors due to the federal sequester. Meanwhile, Two Harbors raises $673 million.

Improving loan quality is sparking a major shake-out in the due diligence sector. Can jumbo production and MBS save the day? Meanwhile, the supply of MBS expanded slightly in the fourth quarter.

Freddie Mac is still owed $1.2 billion from Lehman Brothers, which went bust five years ago. Also, Wells Fargo sells NPLs to Citigroup.

The fast growing Ocwen Financial won the bid for Ally Financial's residential servicing portfolio.

If a plaintiff gets its way, Nationstar will be blocked from auctioning off delinquent loans from MBS pools.

Nationstar appears to be the winning bidder on the Taylor Bean & Whitaker MSR pacakge. Meanwhile: Ed DeMarco, the most powerful man in mortgage finance today?

Merger and acquisition activity is perking up in the mortgage market with a deal set for unveiling possibly by Friday afternoon or early next week.

Nationstar Mortgage earned $63.8 million in the fourth quarter as it continued to snatch up MSR packages.

New Castle and Springleaf are teaming up to buy a huge portfolio of consumer and real estate loans from HSBC.

Will a private conventional MBS market ever happen? If GSE g-fees keep rising, yes.