Servicing

Sensing an opportunity created by tight credit conditions, the giant servicer will buy "nonagency, nonprime" loans from the mortgage cooperative Lenders One, a mortgage cooperative with close ties to the servicer.

Prepayment speeds fell to 12.4% from 13.7% on a consecutive-quarter basis, according to Sterne Agee analysts, who have raised their fiscal year 2015 estimate for Home Loan Servicing Solutions.

The Mortgage Insurance Companies of America’s membership had dwindled to three of the industry's eight companies.

Securitizations fuel appetite for single-family rental properties.

The New York regulator questioned Ocwen’s ability to handle more volume after an independent monitor reviewed the mortgage servicer’s operations, a person familiar with the situation says.

Acquiring the mortgage analytics vendor Interthinx would give First American more products and services to match its rival title insurer Fidelity National — and former subsidiary CoreLogic, spun off in 2010.

Housing boom-era mortgage securitizations, written off as "toxic waste" during the financial crisis, are performing better than investors once expected, thanks to the rebound in home prices.

The appraisal industry has seen many changes within the past few years, and with greater oversight and scrutiny coming from every direction—appraisers are under the microscope.

Ocwen Financial Corp.'s purchase of mortgage-servicing rights from Wells Fargo was indefinitely halted by New York's top financial regulator.

Green Tree Servicing, a unit of Walter Investment Management, is leaving the wholesale mortgage lending business.