Secondary markets

At the end of September, Redwood Trust had 49 active residential loan sellers, up from 37 at June 30. It hopes to have 55 (correspondent) sellers by year end.

Overall, guarantee fees are as high now as they have been at any point during roughly the last decade, partly reflecting price increases that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac implemented in early 2008 as the housing market collapsed.

The rules for Realtors to get financing for properties to be repaired and resold.

Warehouse usage levels haven’t been this strong since the 2000 to 2004 time period when it ranged from 50% to 60%.

Will some of Residential Capital Corporation's massive servicing portfolio wind up at Home Loan Servicing Solutions?

More firms are contemplating selling servicing rights -- including the nation's megabanks.

American Capital Agency Corp. generated $1.3 billion in comprehensive income in the third quarter and separately said it has authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million shares of its common stock through December of next year.

The Department of Justice suit against Bank of America shows that beyond enforcement through regulators, lawsuits are increasingly focusing on the systems lenders use.

Commercial mortgage-backed security issuance has re-emerged in the United States but remained relative dormant in the European region, according to a recent Fitch report.

The hurricane will slow secondary market access as lenders wrap up their last mortgage deals of the month.

FCI is the nation’s largest specialty servicer of private money loans, much of it backed by real estate.

When the winning bid for Residential Capital Corp. was unveiled, there was palatable fear among ResCap’s servicing employees that their jobs might be at stake because Ocwen is well known for housing most of its servicing workers in India and Ecuador.

More depositories -- especially community banks -- are opting to sell their 10- and 15-year mortgages rather than keeping them in portfolio.

It appears that the days of the U.S. Treasury Department doling out money to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are just about over, according to a new report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Even though it still has some regulatory hurdles to clear, interest in jumbo lending has bumped up a notch.

Now that Residential Capital Corp. has auctioned off its $374 billion of servicing contracts, it’s Ally Bank’s turn to unload its MSRs.

A little over a year ago Bank of America sold $74 billion of mortgage servicing rights to Fannie Mae.

Residential Capital Corp. said it approved a $1.5 billion bid by insurance conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway to buy roughly 47,000 whole loans from the bankrupt mortgage company.

Freddie Mac acquired $39 billion of mortgages from its seller/servicers in September, a 5% decline from the month prior.

When Mark Korell joined the company in June he was named chief of sales and marketing.