At Dec. 31, New Residential valued its mortgage servicing portfolio at $659 million...

No details were available on why Dave Hurt parted ways with CoreLogic...

Over the past two years, PHH has lost $347 million, much of it caused by a private-label origination model that has fallen on hard times and rapidly declining interest rates…

“Anytime you have rates run up by 50 basis points, it usually takes about 90 days before a washout begins,” said one mortgage advisor.

It’s unclear at this point what the takeover might mean, if anything, for Nationstar, whose own share price has rallied the past few months.

Bill Erbey, who was forced out by financial regulators two-plus years ago, controls 16.8 percent of Ocwen Financial...

Among the key announcements: the company is selling its PHH Home Loans joint venture to Guaranteed Rate; unloading its private label operations to LenderLive Network, and monetizing “certain” servicing assets.

Mark Filler, who founded Jordan and served as its CEO, was named president of Finance of America Commercial.

Phoenix Capital is offering a private jumbo MSR portfolio sized at $216 million…

Besides the GSEs, one Fairholme’s most speculative investments is Sears Holdings Corp., the struggling retailer…