Servicing

The top five banks had a combined unpaid principal balance of more than $26 billion at the end of Q4 2024.

A former COO at Marlin Mortgage claims the servicer transferred an MSR portfolio to a new subservicer not to benefit the investor, but for the gain of the company's CEO.

The private market is increasingly testing credit metrics aimed at growing originations without adding risk as a larger effort to this end has slowed.

Large mortgage companies are targeting mergers and acquisitions as well as home equity lending in their 2025 business plans, Boston Consulting Group said.

Rocket said the Redfin deal is part of a purchase mortgage strategy, but originating and retaining residential mortgages in portfolio is the real endgame writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

After two consecutive quarters of profits, independent mortgage bankers lost money in the most recent period, for the ninth time in the last three years.

The legislative proposal highlights tensions around broader utilization of partial claim-style mortgage options and the VA's particular difficulty funding one.

Nationally, starts are higher even when seasonal differences are accounted for and in some areas distress is far above the U.S. average, Attom found.

The builder's lending unit bought servicing and secondary market approvals that weren't part of Guild's previous acquisition of CCM's production and branding.

As the 30-year fixed-rate declined by almost 20 basis points, borrowers took advantage, boosting rate-and-term transaction volumes, Optimal Blue said.