Servicing

Lenders of all sizes are looking into becoming servicers, bringing us full circle back to the days when virtually every lender serviced their own loans.

It’s (almost) late summer and what better time to throw out a ‘loose ends’ blog on several story leads, ideas, and thoughts that have been knocking around my head (and inbox) of late.

In July workouts outnumbered new delinquencies among securitized commercial property loans of all types leading to a 14 basis point decrease in the CMBS delinquency index, according to Fitch Ratings.

Home prices are rising again due to the slowdown in REO sales and a decline in the shadow inventory of seriously delinquent loans hanging over the housing market, according to experts.

The judges of the Mortgage Technology Awards have selected this year's finalists. Watch to see who will contend for 11 of the award categories.

Liberal groups on Thursday ratcheted up their pressure on the Obama Administration to respond more forcefully to the foreclosure crisi

Lewis Ranieri¹s Selene Partners made offers on portfolios of nonperforming mortgages being shopped by Citi, Wells, Asset-Backed Alert reports.

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the very valuable program that develops new units for affordable housing, is seeing a thinning out of investors in the tax credit, especially insurance companies.

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization released the latest version of its reference model for a 30-day intellectual property rights review, the final step before MISMO Version 3.2 reaches the final “Recommendation” status for implementation.

Roughly $2 trillion in residential servicing rights might be sold or transferred to subservicers between now and the implementation of the Basel III accords in 2015, according to a new report from Stern Agee.