The receivables are dominated by Texas collateral at almost 62 percent.

The biggest mortgage story of 2015? How about origination volumes being a lot better than anyone dreamed of?

The new offering is in the $1 billion range. MorVest hopes to complete the sale by the end of January.

No purchase price was disclosed. The deal was first hinted at Friday on IMFnews.

Rod Alba of ABA offered up this sobering thought: for violating the TRID rule, lenders could be fined up to $5,000 per violation, per day.

Slip, sliding away: commercial banks and loans-serviced-for others...

Two investment banking firms – Interactive Mortgage Advisors and MountainView Servicing Group – have at least $17 billion (combined) in mortgage servicing rights auctions in the works, a sign that the sector is heating up as the year draws to a close. Several other advisory firms have announced deals in the past few weeks, including The Prestwick Group and Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp. Also, sources contend that investment banker Houlihan Lokey is busy as well, though company officials there declined to comment for this story. Mark Garland, president of MountainView, said...

Time to rejoice: purchase-lending could regularly top $1 trillion a year...

On the $5.9 billion MSR pool, 42 percent of the rights are tied to mortgages in California, Florida and Texas...

American Homes 4 Rent, the largest publicly traded player in the single-family rental market, late this week agreed to buy American Residential Properties in a deal valued at $1.5 billion. It was the second transaction involving real estate investment trusts in the SFR sector within three months, and has sparked talk of further consolidation, including perhaps mortgage REITs. A research note from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, penned right before the AH4R-ARP combination was unveiled, noted that mergers in the space are possible “given current valuation discounts ….” In other words, the share prices of single-family rental REITs have been...