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Swing to Purchase Market Boosts Correspondent Share

Correspondent originators are better at finding purchase-mortgage business, and that’s why the channel’s market share rose in the second quarter. Brokers saw the biggest decline. (Includes six data charts.) Read More

Subservicing Growth Faces Headwinds

For the most part, subservicing growth has been slow, thanks to booming MSR sales and some non-traditional servicing owners shifting strategies. Cenlar, though, remains the nation’s number one subservicer. (Includes data chart.) Read More

Slowdown in New Home Sales Adds to Lag in Mortgage Lending

Last month new home sales fell to their lowest level since January 2016. Trouble ahead, perhaps? Read More

While Servicing Sales Boom, Transfer Times Slip

Thanks to the spike in MSR sales this year, reviews of the underlying collateral are backing up, causing delays in portfolios being transferred to new owners. Implications? Read More

Analysts Eye New Eligibility Rules for Servicers

Ginnie spreads over Treasuries have widened in the wake of the newly announced capital and liquidity requirements for nonbank servicers. Read More

CHLA, CMLA Merge as Key Nonbank Policy Issues Brew

The merger of the two trade groups will spur more robust policy advocacy for smaller originators, according to industry insiders. Read More

SEC Settles Insider Trading Charges Tied to Equifax

Based on insider information about a then-undisclosed data breach at Equifax, Lawrence Palmer and Jerrold Palmer through accomplices had shorted shares of the company. Read More

Grapevine: Oh Cyclicality! / Exceptions to the Rule

Residential finance can be cyclical, but what inning is the correction in? Investors are willing to buy mortgage company debt...but at a price. Read More

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Swing to Purchase Market Boosts Correspondent Share

Subservicing Growth Faces Headwinds

Slowdown in New Home Sales Adds to Lag in Mortgage Lending

While Servicing Sales Boom, Transfer Times Slip

Analysts Eye New Eligibility Rules for Servicers

CHLA, CMLA Merge as Key Nonbank Policy Issues Brew

SEC Settles Insider Trading Charges Tied to Equifax

Grapevine: Oh Cyclicality! / Exceptions to the Rule

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As homeowner equity continues to build, more and more lenders are launching home equity lending products. Are you thinking of joining this market?