Union Home Mortgage to Acquire Assets of Sierra Pacific Mortgage September 17, 2025 Brandon Ivey Union Home will acquire all of Sierra Pacific’s retail branches and wholesale-broker relationships.Read More
Short Takes: Senate Expected to Consider Housing Package / House Republicans Propose Short-Term Budget Bill / Homebuilder Confidence Level in September / Rithm to Acquire Office-Focused REIT September 17, 2025 Brandon Ivey Leaders in the Senate are considering attaching the ROAD to Housing Act to the National Defense Authorization Act.Read More
Bayview’s Planned Acquisition of Guild Fast Tracked by FTC September 11, 2025 Brandon Ivey The Federal Trade Commission ended the waiting period early for Bayview Asset Management's planned acquisition of Guild Mortgage.Read More
Short Takes: FHFA’s Market Share Cap Unclear / Home Purchase Sentiment Ticks Down / Fairway Partners With OpenAI September 9, 2025 Brandon Ivey If subservicing is included in FHFA's market share cap, Rocket plans to shift some of the servicing mix at the combined Rocket/Mr. Cooper.Read More
Rithm to Acquire Insurance-Focused Asset Manager September 4, 2025 Brandon Ivey Crestline Management is based in Forth Worth, TX, and has $17.0 billion of assets under management.Read More
Rocket/Mr. Cooper Merger Gets Nod From FHFA August 27, 2025 Dennis Hollier The regulator, though, says no market participant can account for more than 20% of the GSEs' servicing market.Read More
Up for Grabs: A Small GNMA MF Servicing Portfolio August 27, 2025 Paul Muolo Earlier this month, MIAC came to market with a $987.0 million package of mortgage servicing rights backed by healthcare facilities.Read More
Short Takes: New Details on The Great American Mortgage Corp. / Mortgage Applications for New Homes Up / Annaly’s Expanded-Credit MBS Issuance Humming August 19, 2025 Brandon Ivey The Trump administration is describing The Great American Mortgage Corp. as "the all new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: bigger and better than ever."Read More
More Lender M&A Expected. Details? August 18, 2025 Paul Muolo CEO/owners, north of age 65, in particular, are contemplating getting out.Read More
Pulte Suggests GSE IPO Will Be Small, If It Happens August 14, 2025 Dennis Hollier The FHFA director said the Trump administration's planned sale of GSE stock would be small, if it happened at all.Read More