Servicing

REO assets represented one-third of the overall CMBS delinquency rate in April, reaching $11.1 billion in scheduled loan balance.

Here's a pop quiz for mortgage professionals everywhere: name a foreign bank that successfully bought a U.S. mortgage banking operation—or grew one from scratch—and actually did well with it.

The FHFA has created a financial incentive for executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure that deadlines for the Uniform Mortgage Data Program are met.

New findings show persisting foreclosure problems in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas are deteriorating for the first time in over six quarters.

Today's mortgage bankers have to accept very, very long audits as a marketplace reality. Whether they find auditors likeable and useful, on the other hand, is highly disputable.

Newcastle Investment Corp. said it will be a partner in Nationstar’s plan to purchase $374 billion of servicing rights from Residential Capital Corp. by investing upwards of $300 million in the “excess” servicing strip on the deal.

The long-term rate-indicative 10-year Treasury yield on Monday morning dropped to a low below 1.8% not seen since February.

For almost 95% of mortgage borrowers who refinanced in the first quarter, staying in or moving to a fixed-rate product was the goal, according to the latest Freddie Mac quarterly product transition report.

TriLyn has formed an investment management platform focused on opportunities in high-yield commercial real estate debt.

A group of Wall Street banks and ratings agencies told a federal court in Miami that “greed” and the need to grow earnings was responsible for the 2009 demise of Eastern Financial Florida CU, the one-time $2.4 billion credit union, not alleged fraud on their part in the sale of $100 million of risky financial derivatives known as collateralized debt obligations.