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Bayview Loan Servicing is expanding customer assistance services through a partnership with MortgageKeeper Referral Services that adds financial counseling to the menu.

Auction.com Research said the volume of hotel deals are on a healthy post-recession pace due to moderate growth in the job market and an improved gross domestic product.

PHH Corp. president and CEO Glen Messina said the company’s private-label mortgage clients as well as its joint venture with Realogy right now are seeing robust purchase market activity after the recent rise in rates.

Taylor Capital Group plans to enter the mortgage-servicing business through the purchase of servicing rights and facilities from Liberty Savings Bank.

Lenders and special servicers operating in Nevada may be up for an unpleasant legal surprise if the state’s higher court upholds a 2012 ruling that maintains a private sale of property through receivership is basically the same as a foreclosure sale.

New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has filed a lawsuit that accuses HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Mortgage Corp. for intentionally trapping homeowners into a foreclosure processing maze.

Commercial mortgage delinquencies are nearly 9% for loans backing commercial mortgage-backed securities as of the end of the first quarter.

Equity Loans has formally announced its entry into the wholesale origination sector.

The Center for American Progress appointed former Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., as senior fellow for economic policy.

Triad said a Chapter 11 filing will provide it with the opportunity to pursue strategic alternatives to liquidating the company.