Foreclosures

October featured the highest monthly percent increase in foreclosure starts since August 2011, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Home Sales Report released Thursday.

The housing recovery is still pushing through full-steam, according to CoreLogic's latest National Foreclosure Report.

Freddie Mac has launched an auction of $1.2 billion of nonperforming loans, while Fannie Mae has announced the two winners of its recent auction of $1.24 billion of nonperforming loans.

Profits on home sales reached their highest point in eight years in the third quarter despite a slowing-down of appreciation rates, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Home Sales Report.

Ocwen Financial is back with another round of term notes issued from its Ocwen Master Advance Receivables Trust.

Citigroup plans to issue another $421 million of reperforming residential mortgage bonds from its Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, according to DBRS.

Critical shortcomings in data management and analytics to support servicing rights transfers will become more problematic amid servicer expectations of accelerated activity, according to the results of a National Mortgage News survey.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate continued its year-long improvement in October, with another big improvement predicted for November, according to Trepp.

BlueVirgo Capital Management is marketing $106 million of bonds backed by tax-lien certificates on property in New Jersey and Florida, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it misled shareholders about risky mortgages and its dependence on the electronic mortgage registry known as MERS.