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      <title>Grapevine: Mortgage Applications Spike; M&amp;A Activity Heats Up</title>
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        <![CDATA[Mortgage applications increase, led by refinances; three M&A transactions involving lenders/branches; home price appreciation trends.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Nonbank Execs: More M&amp;A and MSR Sales Likely in 2019</title>
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        <![CDATA[Liquidity problems may be a major driver of increased merger and acquisition activity in 2019. Although bulk MSR buyers may be taking a pause to parse interest-rate trends, volume is expected to be strong this year.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>HomeStreet Looks to Sell Mortgage Business, Servicing</title>
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        <![CDATA[The parent company of HomeStreet Bank last week said it is looking to sell its standalone home loan centers and a majority of its mortgage servicing rights. Officials at the Seattle-based lender cited a number of factors for the divestiture, including reduced demand for refinances and regulatory issues specific to banks.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>M&amp;A Blues: Why Good Companies Aren’t Selling</title>
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        <![CDATA[The great mortgage M&A boom of 2019, so far, is turning out to be a bust. [Includes one data chart.]]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New York Regulator Rejects Fidelity-Stewart Title Merger </title>
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        <![CDATA[The New York Department of Financial Services last week rejected Fidelity National Financial’s application to acquire control of Stewart Information Services’ NY-based title insurance company. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>A Mortgage Giant in the Making: BB&amp;T/SunTrust </title>
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        <![CDATA[BB&T Corp. and SunTrust Banks late in the week unveiled plans to merge in a deal valued at $66.0 billion, one that will create, pro forma, the nation’s ninth-largest home originator as well as the ninth-largest servicer.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Seterus Deal Marks the Start of a Busy MSR Sales Season</title>
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        <![CDATA[Just days into the new year, Mr. Cooper agreed to buy Seterus and its $48.0 billion servicing platform. Now comes the big question: Which firm or portfolio is next on its hit list?]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>As Business Slows, Lenders Cut Branches, Channels</title>
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        <![CDATA[It was a busy week for channel and branch disgorgements with two national lenders announcing transactions they hope will prepare them for a difficult market in 2019. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>CMG Expands in Northeast, Assumes 14 RPM Branches</title>
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        <![CDATA[The California-based lender worked out an arrangement to take over 14 branch offices from RPM Mortgage, most of them in New Hampshire, and pick up about $650 million in annual lending capacity. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Mortgage M&amp;As This Year Likely to Top 2018 Tally</title>
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        <![CDATA[“We’re in a very challenging and turbulent time,” says a top mortgage consultant who predicts an intense period of industry consolidation through 2019 and perhaps beyond. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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