Two months after buying AmeriHome Mortgage, WAB is carving up its massive servicing portfolio and selling chunks to the highest bidder. What’s going on? Profits, for one.

Fannie Mae is feeling slightly more bullish on the origination picture for 2021. Also: Are lenders ready to chop heads?

Bulk servicing sales are beginning to catch fire. Credit: rising rates and slower prepayment speeds. Moreover, dealmakers anticipate a red-hot third quarter for transactions.

Has market sentiment spread to the MI sector? Genworth Financial scuttles (for now) IPO of mortgage insurance division.

Some investors in mortgage equities are putting their money to work elsewhere, but that hasn’t stopped fintech lender Better.com from entering into a SPAC/IPO maneuver. Launch time: the fall of 2021.

It should be a busy year for mortgage company M&A. One driver: the cap on loan sales through the GSE cash window.

It’s a given: When rates rise, servicing values increase. Problem is, there hasn’t been much rate-rising going on. That is, until recently.

Okay, industry consolidation is arriving. But what about prices? Also, more refis could be on the way, courtesy of the GSEs.

Last week, word began to leak out that Caliber Home Loans was talking to New Residential Investment Corp. about a deal. Turns out, the sale chatter was true.

SoftBank places a $500 million bet on the digitization of residential finance by taking a stake in Better.com. Also, mortgage earnings season has begun.