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The company says its first quarter net income nearly doubled from its showing in Q4 2020, due in part to cost-cutting and servicing income. It also revealed more information about unauthorized payment drafts by its vendor.

Depressed Treasury yields have kept mortgage rates under 3% recently, but positive economic news could indicate larger increases will follow this week’s uptick.

This is the first deal that serial acquirer FOA has announced since it went public on April 5.

While it’s the third straight week of a downward trend, borrowers likely have only a brief opportunity to take advantage of sub-3% rates before a reversal comes.

Although the company’s revenue and incomes spiked from year-ago levels, most benchmarks showed a decline from the fourth quarter.

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A private equity capital raise earlier this year gave the company a $3.3 billion valuation.

Banks can mitigate damage from slowing origination activity by putting excess cash to work, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said.

The forward and reverse mortgage lender completed its merger with blank check company Replay Acquisition Corp. on April 1.

Five transactions in the past week provided cash infusions for tech companies that are developing products for real estate finance.

Relying on retained earnings alone, it would be until at least 2036, if not longer, before government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae might end.

Since CoStar made its revised offer in February, its stock price dropped nearly $177 per share.

The merger with Capitol Investment V values the title insurer at $3 billion.

As its mortgage origination volume delivered another quarter of strong earnings, Mr. Cooper’s banking on its "enormous backlog" of REO orders to generate further profitability once the foreclosure moratorium is lifted.

Bond bears appear to be having more than just a moment here at the start of 2021, with Treasury yields finally busting out of long-held ranges to levels last seen in the early days of the pandemic.

Just because the Fed is staying put doesn’t mean that mortgage rates, and prices of MBS, are staying put as well, writes Vice Capital Markets Principal Chris Bennett.

Today, the mortgage players who most actively hedged — Fannie and Freddie, real estate investment trusts and large bank servicers — have significantly reduced their need to to do so, analysts said.

After they reopened on Tuesday, Treasury 10-year yields rose four basis points to touch 1.25% — the highest since last March — while the 30-year equivalent pushed above 2%.

The best mortgage bonds to buy now may be the ones the Federal Reserve is purchasing, because the securities might benefit the most if macro optimism fades.

The offering went down to $14 from an anticipated $19 to $21 per share.