“The new year has all of us in the MSR market off to a running start as we see increases in mortgage rates and lower originations leading to greater demand, allowing for improved pricing of the MSR asset,” said Tom Piercy, managing director of Incenter Mortgage Advisors, Denver.
WMIH Corp., a shell company whose chief asset is tax losses, this week agreed to purchase Nationstar Mortgage for roughly $1.68 billion in cash and stock.