Amilda Dymi

Drawing the line between regulatory failures and regulatory implementation failures is not an easy task.

Home Loan Servicing Solutions acquired certain non-agency mortgage servicing assets with unpaid principal balances from Ocwen earlier this year.The impact has picked up its second quarter results.

According to CoreLogic’s Negative Equity Report, nearly 17 million borrowers who were underwater by the end of the first quarter had loan-to-value ratios of 80% to 125%, which purely from an LTV perspective makes them eligible for the original Home Affordable Refinance Program.

REITs, including mortgage REITs, continue to offer more attractive yields to investors even though the pace of increases has slowed down.

The distressed mortgage market and demand for default-servicing technology is not ebbing away any time soon. Before that happens, vendors are busy beefing up their strategic resources.

The number of fraudsters who charge fees for securitization audits, which is easily accessible and free to all, is increasing.

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision holding that the patent infringement asserted against MarketLinx, a business unit of CoreLogic, was invalid.

Amid growing controversy fueled in part by the new mortgage servicing rules to be finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau next year, the debate over the validity of lender-placed insurance is in full swing and expected to continue.

Most insiders support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's plan to give lender-placed insurance a makeover.

Chris Estes, who served as executive director of the North Carolina Housing Coalition since 2003, has been elected president and CEO of the National Housing Conference.

The prolonged recovery is simultaneously keeping up the demand for mortgage counseling and the foreclosure prevention assistance supply provided by the mortgage industry. What keeps coming up short in the exchange is borrower trust.

Fitch Ratings has found that several types of U.S. structured finance assets have been performing way better than expectations, even far better than has been widely reported.

Support for the California Foreclosure Reduction Act, which requires all lenders to abide by a number of consumer protection provisions of the national mortgage settlement, appears to be unanimous.

The Australian ABS market remains stabile as losses for all vintages are expected to stabilize during the second half of this year despite a slight increase in delinquencies and losses for Australian ABS in 1Q 2012.

Equifax's May National Consumer Credit Trends Report shows the total volume of severely delinquent first-mortgage loans declined to $450 billion from the peak of more than $700 billion in January 2010.

Despite the well-known symbiotic relationship between crime rates and the socio-economic wellbeing of a neighborhood attempts to measure the toll of crime on home values are scarce if nonexistent.

CoreLogic has introduced a new tool designed to deliver summaries of the assignment document chain mortgage servicers need to comply with federal regulators.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is teaming up bank employees with student volunteers from Bike & Build, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to construct affordable housing across the nation through cross-country bicycle trips that benefit affordable housing developers.

Fitch Ratings has issued the first of a series of reports that address recent investor allegations about “servicer specific deficiencies.”

Pricing remains the biggest stumbling block in the sale of assets backed by commercial mortgage loans, according to panelists at SourceMedia’s Buying and Selling Distressed Mortgage Portfolios Conference in New York.