HomeBridge Financial Services this week agreed to buy the assets of Prospect Mortgage, marking one of the largest acquisitions of the year and stoking the hopes of investment bankers that more deals may lay ahead. But HomeBridge’s purchase of Prospect could turn out to be an anomaly. According to HomeBridge CEO Peter Norden, the two parties had been talking on and off about combining forces for roughly five years. For Norden, the combination of the two nonbanks – both privately held – is...

After HomeBridge buys the Sherman Oaks, CA-based lender, the Prospect Mortgage name will disappear, said CEO Peter Norden.

According to the offering circular, 82 percent of the underlying mortgages were sourced through loan brokers...

The sale was brokered by investment banker Houlihan Lokey.

Pingora Loan Servicing, Matrix Financial Services and Arvest Bank were the top acquirers of GSE servicing through co-issuance over the first nine months of the year.

The NPLs are being offered on behalf of a residential loan asset manager…

Late this week, a spokesperson for Ginnie Mae could not offer any specifics about the revised acknowledgement agreement but noted the changes are “almost” complete.

An agreement by a Chinese international financial holding group to acquire Genworth Financial for approximately $2.7 billion, or $5.43 per share, would give China a foothold in the U.S. mortgage insurance market. Announced on Oct. 23 by Genworth, the sale follows the planned sale of market leader United Guaranty to Arch Capital Group, a global provider of mortgage insurance and reinsurance based in Bermuda. The entire Genworth family of companies, including the MI division, is...

There has yet to be a “large” mortgage M&A deal announced this year other than the pending sale of EverBank to TIAA.

On average, the California-based GEMBC facilitates roughly $800 million of commercial mortgages a year.