Owners of scratch-and-dent mortgages, especially nonbanks, can’t hang onto these problematic loans forever. The good news: Sellers are more likely to accept bids this year.

More banks are considering leaving the residential lending/servicing sector or scaling back. Will these decisions, made during tough times, come back to haunt them?

Mortgage REIT Rithm wants to unlock the market value of its mortgage banking franchise by spinning off the unit into its own publicly traded company. A serious idea or a ploy to juice the share price of the parent?

The acquisition will make Mr. Cooper the seventh-largest mortgage servicer.

Originations declined, margins improved, but a loss was still in the cards for the first quarter.

Guild is gaining market share and counting on an earnings turnaround in the coming months.

Survey says: An increased number of respondents think mortgage rates will go down over the next year...

There have been scattered reports of improving applications and profit margins...

Computershare said, “Low origination and refinancing volumes, along with the timing of MSR capital recycling trades, affected results."

In 2022, loanDepot was the fifth largest seller of bulk mortgage servicing rights as measured by agency servicing transfers...