Liquidity means access to cash – and is a chief concern of Ginnie Mae acting president Michael Bright as well…

One advisor said he knows of three bulk transactions that are stalled: one sized at $7.0 billion, another at $16.0 billion, and one more at $24.5 billion.

Mark Stafford, a principal in MS Capital Advisors, New York, said larger firms are content to stay the course…

At Sept. 30, banks and thrifts serviced $3.627 trillion of residential mortgages for others…

Founded by industry vet Willie Newman, Home Point is owned by investment funds managed by Stone Point Capital...

Ocwen, which paid $360 million in cash for PHH, also disclosed: “The purchase price we negotiated contemplated PHH could continue to incur losses.”

Small- to medium-sized residential lenders are finding a home in today’s merger-and-acquisition market, but larger transactions are facing long odds with private equity investors sitting on the side-lines. At least that’s the view this week from a handful of advisors interviewed by Inside Mortgage Finance.

In past downturns, large lenders and servicers were either sold outright or they joined forces with like-sized companies…

Did CNBC's Jim Cramer do any research on the mortgage industry before he opened his mouth?

With loan production waning and profit margins thinning, investment bankers and warehouse ex-ecutives far and wide have been expecting a tsunami of mortgage-related mergers and acquisitions to sweep the industry. If there’s a big wave, it’s still out at sea.