According to figures recently compiled by RealtyTrac, 26,947 single family homes were flipped nationwide in the third quarter.

Another new entrant to the nonprime space is Garrison Investment Group, a private equity firm that late last month bought Hilco Real Estate Finance.

But did anyone really think the FHFA was going to reduce the GSE loan limits? Really…

What exactly is Owners.com? Launched in 1996, it’s supposedly the largest directory of homes for sale by owners. In other words, they don’t use traditional Realtors…

Interactive Mortgage Advisors alone is working on $10 billion worth of deals...

The Prestwick Group and MIAC are also working on servicing deals.

Regarding Altisource Portfolio Solutions, Sterne Agee noted: “It is difficult to be optimistic from here"...

A sale of that size would greatly reduce the bank’s portfolio and would signal a strategy shift.

Two years ago, Ross’ WL Ross & Co. sold its mortgage banking operation, Homeward Residential, to Ocwen for $750 million in cash and convertible preferred stock.

There’s a growing fear that the CSBS might move to increase capital standards for nonbank originators as well.