Mortgage defaults

Freddie Mac has expanded the amount of ongoing loan-level data it discloses about mortgages it insures in an effort to boost appetite for reinsurance.

Ocwen Financial Corp. and Walter Investment Management Corp. both recorded full-year losses in 2015, though that is where comparisons between the two companies cease.

PHH Corp. reported a bigger loss in the fourth quarter, on costs to restructure its business and a loss on sales of mortgage servicing rights.

Fannie Mae has sold a pool of about $13.2 million of nonperforming loans to New Jersey Community Capital.

Nationstar Mortgage is in the market with the second rated securitization of what are nonperforming Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Mortgage loan delinquencies declined in January, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

The number of properties in foreclosure nationwide declined in January, according to RealtyTrac.

NMI Holdings should become profitable for the first time in the second half of 2016 as its insurance-in-force is expected to go over $21 billion.

A public interest coalition is calling on bank regulators to declare the drinking water contamination in Flint, Mich., a "disaster" and encourage lenders from around the country to extend credit to the area in order to counteract the damage.

Troubled loans no longer overwhelm the market, but there could be smaller outbreaks that servicers must be ready to deal with, a real estate services vendor says.