Servicing

Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp. agreed to buy about 2,460 single-family rental homes in one of the nascent industry's largest bulk purchases.

Foreclosures and delinquencies may seem like problems from the past, but servicers are still struggling with a massive backlog of distressed loans and a return to normalcy is at least two years away, if not longer.

Rent prices continue to surge like a red tide in the Tampa Bay area — something few welcome.

The Department of Veterans Affairs released a plan to use a 387-acre tract of land in west Los Angeles to help end veteran homelessness in the city.

National credit default rates accelerated in January from recent lows seen last year.

The North Texas region has been a hub for mortgage servicing for decades, dating back to the oil bust and savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Today, some key players and many smaller ones remain firmly entrenched in the area.

They're called "zombie properties" — dilapidated, abandoned and overgrown with weeds because the lending institutions inheriting them through foreclosure fail to maintain them.

Nationally, the overall denial rate on a conventional loan was 12.4%, Zillow found after studying 2013 data lenders reported under the U.S. Housing Mortgage Disclosure Act.

Delinquencies of new commercial mortgage-backed securities finished January at a post-recession low, according to Fitch Ratings.

Essent Group closed out its first full year as a public company in the black, as increased premiums continued to fuel profitability.