Meanwhile, the largest potential deals looming over the market continue to be Ditech Financial and loanDepot…

As press time, Lindberg’s spokesman, Chuck Norman of S&A Communications, had not returned several emails and telephone calls regarding the subpoenas.

One fact that all dealmakers can agree on is that MSR pricing is the best it’s been all decade…

Ditech’s most coveted asset is its $181.4 billion mortgage servicing portfolio...

But there’s a catch: the portfolio has a delinquency rate of 11.5 percent and foreclosures of 1.5 percent.

Highbridge Capital Management, New York, this week disclosed a 9.79 percent stake in the troubled Ditech Financial, a once bankrupt servicing giant whose future continues to be an open question.

A spokeswoman for bemortgage said the lender’s staff will be kept in place…

Roughly 86 percent of the mortgages are purchase-money loans...

Meanwhile, Hindman doesn’t see Amazon or Google buying an existing mortgage franchise...

Private equity firms hoping to cash out their ownership stakes in nonbank lenders via an initial public offering of stock will have to wait a little longer, thanks to a tough origination market and institutional investor interest that lies elsewhere.