Blue Lion Capital, which has been critical of the Seattle company in recent years, has nominated two individuals to become directors.

Mortgage rates continued to decline through the spring home buying season, driving up the share of refinance loans and overall closing rates, according to Ellie Mae.

Gateway Mortgage Group’s dream of being a national, diversified financial services player will hinge on its effort to turn a community bank into an online-only platform.

HomeStreet Bank could receive nearly $190 million in total for selling $14 billion in mortgage servicing rights to New Residential and PennyMac, and selling its home loan centers to Homebridge.

Sluggish growth in originations spurs consolidation. Keep in mind, there's more to M&A than just agreeing on a price.

Zillow Group is rebranding Mortgage Lenders of America, the call center originator it bought last year to provide property purchasers from its home flipping business with financing.

The company plans to sell its third-party origination channel to Renasant. It has also lined up a deal to sell its correspondent channel.

University Bancorp gained a number of offices from Huron Valley Financial. It also hired lenders and staff with experience in reverse mortgages and wholesale lending.

McLean Mortgage is not going forward with a potential sale to Congressional Bank in Bethesda, Md., saying an agreement that made sense for all parties wasn't possible.

Two Harbors Investment Corp., which grew its servicing portfolio by 22% in the fourth quarter, priced a common stock offering to raise funds to buy more rights as well as mortgage-backed securities.

Gateway Mortgage Group says its launch of a digital-only bank is scheduled for this summer.

Berkadia, a joint venture run by Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is acquiring real estate capital advisory firm Central Park Capital Partners to diversify its capital sources.

New York regulators rejected Fidelity National Financial's acquisition of Stewart Information Services because the combination would have a dominant share of title insurance in the state.

American Mortgage Consultants has acquired title search outsourcer String Real Estate Information Services as part of ongoing efforts to support all the services secondary-market clients need to conduct trades.

Bank of Marin CEO Russ Colombo is tightening up pricing and terms, citing soaring real estate prices in markets like San Francisco.

Ocwen Financial reduced the size of its net loss by nearly half during 2018 thanks to cost-cutting measures, and economies of scale from its acquisition of PHH Corp.

The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.

The company will shutter the offices it inherited when it bought EverBank in 2017 and focus on lending to existing customers through digital channels. U.S. Bank will assume the leases on about 25 properties.

The company disclosed that it paid $146 million for servicing rights associated with $13 billion in mortgages.

New Residential priced its second stock offering in four months, looking for gross proceeds of nearly $665 million.