Servicing

The buy side and the sell side at the Securities Industry and Financial Market Association are in agreement and sticking to their guns on some issues that could shape how shelf eligibility for securitizations will take shape, including the issuer's certification, the role of a credit risk manager in transactions and arbitration.

After three straight quarters in which foreclosure activity throughout the country was down due to the robo-signing scandal, a new trend began in the third quarter that analysts predict may last for an extended period of time.

Distressed homeowners in Connecticut who are facing foreclosure now have another option to speak with a Bank of America representative to avoid losing their property.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start transitioning to a new system where mortgage servicers pick the foreclosure attorneys they work with -- not the GSEs.

The risk management company RiskSpan and the law firm Lyons McCloskey have formed a strategic alliance to deliver innovative solutions to the default servicing industry.

The international real estate operating company Kennedy Wilson recently opened up a townhome community that it acquired from Bank of America.

The number of California homeowners brought into the default foreclosure process surged in the third quarter, according to the real estate information provider DataQuick.

Despite rock bottom interest rates, mortgage applications fell 15% for the week ending October 14 with purchase money loans hitting their lowest level in 15 years, according to new figures compiled by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

U.S. Bancorp, a top ranked player in residential mortgages, reported $17.2 billion of originations in the third quarter, more than double its home funding production in the prior period.

Residential home prices may get a boost from an unlikely source: a pickup in short sales, which occur after default, but before a foreclosure auction.