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Resigned to the fact that purchase volume is unlikely to make up for any decline in refinancing, Stonegate Mortgage is focused on improving efficiency to increase loan profits over trying to grow loan volume.

Citadel Servicing Corp., a California-based nonbank wholesale mortgage lender and servicer, has rolled out a subprime second trust deed loan program.

New servicing standards issued by the government-sponsored enterprises are unlikely to pose a hurdle for the biggest nonbank players in the market, but small servicers could find it more challenging.

Ocwen Financial will close a call center in Houston as the mortgage servicer continues to downsize.

Eight years after the bottom fell out of the housing market, investment giants including BlackRock are facing off against small hedge funds over the detritus of the subprime era.

Nonbank servicers selling and buying Fannie and Freddie MSRs must meet new capital and liquidity requirement to transfer servicing.

Politicians and regulators need to get with the times — for the sake of the housing market and its participants.

RMBS 3.0 investors are turning their attention to service performance in new transactions, following years of difficulties in the mortgage servicing sector, according to Fitch Ratings.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings president and chief operating officer Harold Lewis has announced his plans to retire and resign his posts with the company, effective May 31.

Long before regulators put the spotlight on servicing-rights transfers, there were signs that many deals weren't going smoothly, leaving both borrowers and investors at risk.

JPMorgan Chase has purchased $45 billion in servicing rights from embattled mortgage firm Ocwen Financial.

WashingtonFirst Bankshares in Reston, Va., has agreed to buy direct mortgage lender 1st Portfolio Holding Corp. in Fairfax, Va.

With support from Bank of America, a nonprofit lender is trying to revitalize Detroit by offering no-down-payment mortgages at up to 150% of a home's assessed value. The idea is to provide borrowers with enough cash to buy run-down homes and fix them up, and if the program works as promised it could prove to be a template for lending in other cities — like Baltimore — that have large swaths of boarded-up homes.

Sutherland Asset Management has launched a bridge lending division called Ready Capital Structured Finance to strengthen its existing direct commercial lending platform.

This year's unexpected pickup in both refinance and purchase lending is keeping hiring at nonbank mortgage firms moving at a upbeat clip.

PHH Corp. reported a strong jump in income due to favorable adjustments to mortgage servicing rights and increased mortgage application volume.

Walter Investment Management Corp. dropped to a $31 million net loss on decreasing net servicing fees and a significant fair value charge to mortgage servicing rights.

To survive and thrive, community banks must follow the lead of nonbank mortgage lenders by embracing digital technology and customer convenience.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings swung to a significant loss as the servicing segment's income fell due to higher prepayments amidst the decline in interest rates and lower benefits.

Although mortgage servicers technically work for the investors that pay them, the state of the business today requires that they make consumers front-and-center in their operations.