Servicing

Businesses went knocking on banks' doors to ask for more loans over the past few months, boosting optimism that demand would continue to rise in the coming year.

The latest round of monthly 30-year conventional mortgage-backed securities prepayment speeds came in slower than some expected.

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.