Pretium Partners and a unit of Ares Management will acquire Front Yard Residential in a deal valued at $2.4 billion. The move follows recent complaints from shareholders regarding mismanagement.
Data vendor Black Knight plans to combine its Compass Analytics business with Optimal Blue in a newly formed entity, with an emphasis on cross-selling products.
Bill Foley, the man who made Fidelity Financial into a title insurance giant, has his eyes on mortgage analytics vendor CoreLogic. But will antitrust concerns prevail?
After a planned merger between Amherst Residential and Front Yard Residential fell through, the head of Altisource Portfolio Solutions expressed his displeasure with Front Yard’s board.
Rep and warrant insurance, which covers corporate functions and not loan-level issues, has increasingly been used in mergers and acquisitions outside of the mortgage industry.