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One servicing executive tracking the deal said Nationstar is favored to win the bid.

Aside from those potentially game-changing rules, banks are also facing higher guarantee fees by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and higher premiums for Federal Housing Administration loans.

Transparency is the word being thrown around by many at the meeting.

Process change must match technology change and technology change must be seamless and improve process efficiencies.

The asset value of mortgage servicing rights are rapidly being reduced by some of the largest players in the servicing business.

The latest roundup of regulatory changes and mortgage fraud news.

Is the 'fiscal cliff' issue causing home buyers to sit on the fence?

U.S. Bancorp, one of the fastest growing mortgage lenders in the nation, fears the ramifications of the "fiscal cliff."

Everyone should take advantage of the current low interest rates to refinance, but can they qualify? Why some perfectly good borrowers are being turned away.

Springleaf Finance Corp., the subprime lender that’s been raising cash to repay maturing debt by packaging older mortgages into bonds, plans to sell $787 million of home-loan securities.

With millions of homes currently foreclosed upon nationwide, there is potentially a second foreclosure crisis looming that could deteriorate the housing industry even more: the tax lien sale.

A Virginia businessman who participated in an elaborate fraud scheme that led to Bank of Commonwealth’s collapse has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.

Lender Processing Services has reached a settlement with the Delaware attorney general related to the state’s investigation of robo-signing practices by the company’s subsidiary DocX.

Commercial real estate finance company iStar Financial has obtained a $1.82 billion senior secured credit facility.

Steven R. Hinz pleaded guilty Oct. 12 to tax fraud and mortgage fraud charges in Cleveland federal court, according to the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service.

National Credit Union Association examiners in 2013 will continue to focus on issues that have been a priority the last two years: general credit risk and interest rate risk from the increasing number of mortgages being booked by credit unions.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods expects the next round of mortgage real estate investment trust earnings to be lower than the previous quarter’s, but believes book values will be higher.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Morgan Stanley for racial discrimination in allegedly pushing predatory loans that were likely to be foreclosed upon towards black homeowners.

No one imagined we would have so much government intervention or that losses and foreclosures would hit such unbelievably high levels.