Mortgage servicing rights are still a hot commodity and new investors continue to surface, but prices aren't what they used to be. One bright spot: Credit quality looks promising, at least on conventional rights.
Will investors be interested in buying shares in a special purpose acquisition company that houses a bank/warehouse lender and assets put together by fintech guru Mike Cagney? Maybe in “normal times,” but we’re not operating in normal times.
Fewer fix-and-flip home sales are occurring these days, a negative sign for this once white-hot sector. What's more, the profit per transaction dropped to $62,000 in the third quarter. Meanwhile, remember industry veteran Bill Dallas? He may be returning to the mortgage industry for one more rodeo.