At September 30, Flagstar had capitalized the MSRs on its balance sheet at 107 basis points.

What's ahead for residential lenders and servicers in 2014? You might be surprised at some of our predictions. Hint: The servicing market looks good, at least.

Ginnie Mae chief Ted Tozer noted: “We want aggressive outreach to find out what the issues are. If they aren’t issuing, we want to know why."

It's not every day that a REIT gains access to a Federal Home Loan Bank. This REIT, of course, likes to buy mortgage servicing rights.

Freedom Mortgage, which has aggressive hiring plans this year, has tapped two top production executives from PHH.

Let’s just hope that if Bernie Madoff and Lee Farkas are socializing together in prison they’re not plotting some type of massive mortgage scam.

The mortgage insurance industry is anxiously waiting on new risk-to-capital rules being worked on by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

One former regulator told us that HUD is relying too heavily on foreclosure sales, which can drive down median values.

According to calculations from Inside Mortgage Finance, some counties will see the limit fall to $271,050. “At the very least FHA should allow for a phase-in period,” said one industry lobbyist.

A few months back top executives at RFC denied to Inside Mortgage Finance that a sale was in the works.