Servicing

Certain borrowers cut off from help due to the market's elevated equity levels and rates may fare better under coming changes made at the direction of the FHFA.

Although experts are predicting an active season, actual damages could be lower depending on how many storms make landfall and where, Corelogic reported.

The assumption process is highly manual and time consuming and the change from Dark Matter enables lenders to pull data from MSP back into the Empower system.

The Department of Veterans Affairs asked servicers to suspend foreclosures beyond May, with exceptions for circumstances like borrower readiness to proceed.

Fears that foreclosures and abandoned property rates could spike once Covid-19 moratoriums ended have not come to fruition, Attom Data Solutions said.

The Federal Housing Administration's clarification addresses interpretations of an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that increased industry costs.

Unusual spikes in property taxes and insurance in many areas are causing servicing concerns that mortgage companies may not be used to managing.

Amid numerous late payment improvements, foreclosure sales and prepayments ticked up.

But some of the financial damage lenders have on mortgage originations comes from their own disclosure errors, Intercontinental Exchange added.

Professionals also must grapple with the issue of wanting liquidity on assets in an era of low production.