Reputational risk "remains high with regard to any and all foreclosures," Schwartz said. The crisis gave regulators the ammunition they needed to create loan servicing-specific legislation and policies, which resulted in the straining of the execution of collection and default services for many servicers, whereas those practices had worked well for them prior to the crisis.

In a report filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, NMS Monitor Joseph A. Smith, Jr., reported the results of the retesting for Q1 2014 and also outlined several actions Ocwen has taken to improve its internal review group (IRG), which Smith has been investigating since May 2014.

Despite the gains for the housing market this spring, the Census Bureau reported that homeownership nationwide had fallen to 63.7 percent in Q1, its lowest level since the 1990s, with ongoing declines happening primarily among households under age 45.

Delinquencies remained low among 15 single-family rental securitizations for March, according to data reported by Morningstar Credit Ratings in a recent report titled "Single-Family Research: Performance Summary Covering All Morningstar Rated Securitizations."

The serious delinquency rate, which is the percentage of loans 90 days or more overdue or in foreclosure declined substantially in Q1 down to 4.24 percent – a drop of 28 basis points from Q4 2014 and 80 basis points from the same quarter a year earlier.

Housing and economic activity has returned to or exceeded normal levels in 68 of about 360 metropolitan areas in the country (about 19 percent) as of the end of Q1 2015, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI) released Wednesday. The 68 markets represent a year-over-year increase of seven markets, according to NAHB.

Royce said in a statement on his website that it is "unconscionable" that Freddie Mac would elevate the pay of its CEO to that level while taxpayers are still on the hook. The fact that the GSEs are still under conservatorship of the FHFA, where they have been since September 2008, is still a contentious one among politicians and stakeholders in the housing market.

Deutsche Bank sued Morgan Stanley in April 2014, claiming that the New York-based investment firm breached a contract by misrepresenting the quality of about $735 million worth of loans held in a trust in in which Deutsche Bank was the trustee and Morgan Stanley was the sponsor.

According to the CFPB's announcement, consumers with limited credit histories can be placed in two groups – "credit invisible," which means the consumer has no credit report, or "unscored," which means the consumer has some credit history but not enough to generate a credit score, or else the information is "stale" and out of date.

The bill, which Whitehouse introduced into the Senate on Thursday, April 30, would permanently extend foreclosure relief to servicemenbers provided by the Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2014, introduced by Whitehouse last May and signed into law by President Obama in December after unanimously passing in both the House and the Senate.