Over the past 60 days, some “big name sellers” having been testing the waters of the MSR market, said one advisor…

Ditech, in the coming days, expects to close on its previously announced asset sale to New Residential Investment Corp. The REIT is scheduled to purchase most of the nonbank’s servicing portfolio and what’s left of its origination platform.

Although origination volumes appear to be strong these days, some mortgage executives are already worrying about what might happen next year...

The hike in the retained earnings threshold was widely anticipated and the news hardly budged the share price of Fannie/Freddie common.

Recent Treasury Department figures show foreign holdings of agency MBS grew by $42.9 billion from March to June…

Freddie Mac declined to say how much credit it had extended under the pilot, though a spokesman said it was under $1 billion. 

Combined, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae accounted for 63.0% of total home mortgage debt outstanding at the end of June.

The publicly traded Impac is based in Irvine, CA. Its share price is currently at $7.34, more than double what it was in June. Donatacci will split his time between California and New York.

The press-shy Cenlar – which has a thrift charter – continued to dominate the subservicing rankings with a market share of 21.3%...

The CSBS report: “Thin liquidity margins, especially when coupled with the other risks identified above, can put a nonbank in a sudden compromised position triggered by a reduction in revenues or other market or economic events such as volatile interest rates that can have significant impact on the value of MSRs.”