Servicing

The national delinquency rate fell to a seven-year low through October, according to data from Black Knight Financial Services.

Bond investors are wresting higher yields from landlords in the fledgling business where rental homes are financed by credit markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposal Thursday that would institute new foreclosure protections for consumers after the agency found its previous mortgage rules didn't go far enough.

Essent Group has priced a $267 million secondary public offering of its common stock.

Only eleven months after cheering Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt's confirmation, Senate Democrats are fed up with the pace of reforms at the agency.

MountainView Servicing Group will serve as an advisor in the sale of a $1.2 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

Consumer credit default rates rose slightly in October from the previous month. But even with the recent increases, these rates are still much lower than levels seen a year ago.

Because the FHFA drew down vast amounts of taxpayer funds to "pay" for accounting provisions that would later be reversed, the GSEs remained saddled with in senior preferred stock that paid a dividend rate of 10%, until that rate was revised upward.

An independent actuarial report showed the Federal Housing Administration's mortgage insurance fund's capital ratio hit 0.41% this year, which is below the earlier estimate of 1.2%.

Colony American Finance has acquired a $165 million portfolio of acquisition lines secured by single-family homes from Archetype Credit Opportunity Fund.