Servicing

The approaching hurricane season could damage roughly four million residential properties whose estimated value exceeds $700 billion.

The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan fell to 3.67% for the week ending June 7, an eight basis point decline from seven days earlier.

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New technology and approaches are making automated valuation models more accurate.

The nation’s mega servicers are increasing their use of principal reductions in modifying loans as they fulfill obligations under the $25 billion robo-signing settlement with the state attorneys general and federal agencies.

A higher number of conduit loans that back U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities are being liquidated, and at a lower average loss severity rate. But as special servicers try to manage vintage deals more losses are expected this year and the next.

The stock market roared Wednesday and the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury jumped to 1.67% in afternoon trading, thanks to better economic news out of Europe.

Milestone Merchant Partners is circulating an offering book on $30.8 billion of mortgage servicing rights that once belonged to now-defunct Taylor, Bean & Whitaker.

Mass Companies is listing 23 bank-owned Michigan properties that total $9.7 million for auction next week on its website.

All regions except for the Midwest showed positive results regarding home values for the latest rolling quarter—the most recent four months compared to the previous three months—and year, Clear Capital said.