Servicing

Securitizations fuel appetite for single-family rental properties.

The New York regulator questioned Ocwen’s ability to handle more volume after an independent monitor reviewed the mortgage servicer’s operations, a person familiar with the situation says.

Acquiring the mortgage analytics vendor Interthinx would give First American more products and services to match its rival title insurer Fidelity National — and former subsidiary CoreLogic, spun off in 2010.

Housing boom-era mortgage securitizations, written off as "toxic waste" during the financial crisis, are performing better than investors once expected, thanks to the rebound in home prices.

The appraisal industry has seen many changes within the past few years, and with greater oversight and scrutiny coming from every direction—appraisers are under the microscope.

Ocwen Financial Corp.'s purchase of mortgage-servicing rights from Wells Fargo was indefinitely halted by New York's top financial regulator.

Green Tree Servicing, a unit of Walter Investment Management, is leaving the wholesale mortgage lending business.

First American Financial Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Interthinx for $155 million from its parent company, Verisk Analytics.

Modified loans represent a potentially volatile portfolio that could become increasingly unstable over the next several years as loan modifications begin to reset.

The largest auction of troubled assets in the commercial mortgage-backed securities market is showing the strength of investors' appetites for real estate as more distressed properties from the crash come up for sale.