Rising Realty’s 1 Cal Plaza in DTLA Enters Special Servicing

Rising Realty’s 1 Cal Plaza in DTLA Enters Special Servicing

Rising Realty Partners has gone into special servicing for a $300 million loan linked to a 42-story office building in Downtown Los Angeles. The locally based investor went into special servicing for... Read more »
Lennar Mortgage signs on with ICE’s loan servicing system

Lennar Mortgage signs on with ICE’s loan servicing system

Lennar Mortgage, a financial services subsidiary of Lennar Corp., will move its servicing operations to the industry-leading MSP loan servicing system from ICE Mortgage Technology, ICE announced on Monday.  With Lennar already... Read more »
CFPB, FTC file amicus brief against Ocwen over servicing ‘convenience’ fees

CFPB, FTC file amicus brief against Ocwen over servicing ‘convenience’ fees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week that they have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,... Read more »
Lennar Mortgage signs on with ICE’s loan servicing system

V.A. is still “moving forward” with servicing purchase program

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is still moving forward with its servicing purchase program, despite a hearing in the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs last week raising uncertainties about its... Read more »
Sagent unveils new servicing platform

Sagent unveils new servicing platform

Warburg Pincus-backed fintech Sagent launched on Wednesday its new servicing software platform called Dara, which has a single real-time database and user experience across the entire core, consumer and default servicing life cycle, according... Read more »
How to gain a competitive edge through in-house servicing

How to gain a competitive edge through in-house servicing

Analysts in the mortgage industry are projecting that 2024 will be a better year than 2023 across the board. In a HousingWire report, analyst firm Jeffries said that they believe the worst... Read more »
Jamison’s Loan on Encino Office Goes to Special Servicing

Jamison’s Loan on Encino Office Goes to Special Servicing

Jamison Properties’ loan on an office complex in Encino has been sent to special servicing, after the landlord disclosed it would need more time to figure out a way to refinance it,... Read more »
Cenlar FSB, BaseCap partner on new servicing compliance program

Cenlar FSB, BaseCap partner on new servicing compliance program

Cenlar FSB, the second-largest mortgage servicer and largest subservicer in the U.S., has partnered with financial services-focused data and analytics company BaseCap Analytics to pilot a new program designed to enhance regulatory... Read more »
CFPB’s Chopra addresses mortgage trigger leads, servicing rules in Senate hearing

CFPB’s Chopra addresses mortgage trigger leads, servicing rules in Senate hearing

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra has made the rounds this week on Capitol Hill, providing testimony to Congress in their semi-annual reviews of the CFPB. On Thursday, Chopra took... Read more »
Servicing earnings prop up Pennymac’s Q3 performance

Servicing earnings prop up Pennymac’s Q3 performance

The servicing segment drove most of Pennymac Financial Services’s earnings in the third quarter of 2023, just like its peers, Mr. Cooper and Rithm Capital.  Profits at the California-based lender increased by 60% from July to... Read more »