Ocwen Financial continues to sell servicing rights and pay down debt. But its stock price isn't moving very much.

loanDepot founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh is well known for starting companies, building them up and then selling them.

What do Fannie/Freddie officials say about the walk-out? They were amused at the effort but declined to comment on-the-record.

Institutional investors are beginning to have major doubts about certain mortgage stocks, reducing their positions in companies such as PHH Corp. and Ocwen Financial as they struggle to present convincing evidence that better days are ahead – especially with 2016 just months away. Ocwen, in particular, has been savaged by investors over the past 18 months, its share price falling from an all-time high of $60 to $5.66. This past summer, Ocwen’s share price stabilized somewhat before getting clobbered early this week after disclosing that it expects to post a loss for all of 2015. For many investors it has...

Over the past few years, Flagstar has been a selective seller of mortgage servicing rights, lopping off packages as large as $40 billion.

Technology, like MBS, can be complicated. Just read the new FHFA report…

Recently, Home Point added a large retail lending team from Great Plains Bank and Newman promised that “we have another large retail team scheduled to come on in the next several weeks.”

Irony or good business?: Ocwen's mortgage customers are located in the U.S., but the back office staff processing their loans are mostly overseas.

Regulatory fears are driving the desire by some owners/CEOs to exit the mortgage business, but we’ve heard that refrain before.

Although the bulk market has faced headwinds in recent weeks, the “flow” servicing market has been “robust,” Piercy said.