Wingspan is a specialty servicer, a space that is looking increasingly crowded these days.

Quick question: What’s the difference between student loan debt and mortgage debt? One is impossible to extinguish by going through bankruptcy.

The initiative – which is being spearheaded by The Collingwood Group – comes at a time when the share prices of publicly traded mortgage companies have reached new lows.

MountainView also will extend credit to borrowers who recently completed bankruptcy.

Back in May, Pershing Square founder William Ackman said the common stock of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be worth at least $23 a share. Huh?

Skyline Lending is ready to roll out a new non-agency product and plans to place the loans in what the company calls a “structured holding cell.”

According to one deal-maker, after a merger, anywhere between 30 percent to 40 percent of a company’s LOs might choose to leave.

Mutual of Omaha bank said it remains "committed" to the mortgage business, even though it's closing the retail channel.

In the second quarter, Altisource Residential agreed to buy 4,374 nonperforming mortgages that carry an underlying collateral value of $1.23 billion.

So, is now a good time to buy into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? It's a game not for the faint of heart.