Servicing

Fidelity National Financial has increased the cash component of its offer for Lender Processing Services by $500 million.

For the first time since the collapse of the real estate market eight years ago, Massachusetts foreclosure starts fell below 250.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation have launched a multistage regional design competition that aims to promote housing construction innovation in Hurricane Sandy-affected areas.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors as exclusive broker for an unnamed seller is offering $2.1 billion in Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae bulk residential mortgage servicing rights.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray defended the agency's new mortgage rules, data-gathering activities and single-director leadership structure.

As of June, 167,680 homeowners decided to leave their home that lenders have foreclosed upon.

Home Loan Servicing Solutions Ltd. is commencing an underwritten public offering of 12.5 million of its ordinary shares.

Only portfolio lender Astoria Financial, a company which would benefit from higher interest rates, closed higher on Wednesday.

Sabal Financial Group is expanding into third-party servicing, special servicing and construction loan administration nationwide.

News that Wells Fargo and Bank of America failed to comply with the mortgage loan modification timeline processing requirements of the mortgage servicing standards mandated by the national mortgage settlement are bittersweet for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.