Servicing

A homeowner's equity position is one of the many factors that drive property transitions between owner-occupied and rental status, according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Research Institute for Housing America.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Feb. 3.

Companies whose financials have taken hits due to their holdings of mortgage servicing rights are in for a treat, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Cerberus Capital Management is marketing its first securitization of reperforming mortgages of the year.

The newly installed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission voted against 2015 rules that largely rejected the banking industry's entreaties.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hit Prospect Mortgage with a $3.5 million fine for illegally paying kickbacks to two real estate brokers and a mortgage servicer.

Democrats boycotted the Senate Finance Committee's planned vote Tuesday on the nomination of Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin, temporarily stalling it from moving forward.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages fell modestly in January, bucking the recent trend.

New Residential Investment Corp. has priced the public offering of more than 49.2 million shares of its stock that it plans to use to pay for its purchase of mortgage servicing rights from CitiMortgage.

Citigroup's decision to exit mortgage servicing by the end of 2018 is part of a long-term strategy to increase returns and sharpen the bank's focus on its core retail customers.