It’s been a quiet year when it comes to new stock issuance from mortgage REITs. But thanks to the Fed trimming rates by 50 basis points, with another 50 bps in cuts expected, activity could pick up markedly.
Falling interest rates are never good for the value of mortgage servicing rights. But with so many MSR owners keeping their 3% to 4% rights of 2020 and 2021 and selling the rest, marks for the third quarter of 2024 could be benign.
Among the top five subservicing vendors in the second quarter, volume changes compared with the end of March ranged from a 6.3% decline at Cenlar to a 4.8% increase at Mr. Cooper.