Tag Archives: mortgage servicing

Safeguard Properties is launching its next-generation multimedia Photo Direct application, introducing the use of panoramic photos, video, and audio to property preservation work in the field. The company unveiled the enhancements at the 2018 Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) National Mortgage Servicing ...

With the National Mortgage Servicing Conference and Expo 2018 unfolding this week in Grapevine, Texas, DS News has been on the scene, speaking with some of the industry’s biggest names and power players. During the event, DS News spoke on ...

Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the February issue of DS News, out now. Last year was momentous for the housing industry. The economy tracked well as home prices leapt to highs not seen since the Great Recession and existing ...

Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the January issue of DS News, out now. One of the biggest mortgage servicing issues facing lenders in Texas, Florida, California, and other states that have suffered from declared disasters relates to insurance claims ...

In a statement released Wednesday, PHH said they will implement new servicing standards as part of a settlement with a multi-state group of state attorneys general, as well as following a “testing and reporting process to ensure compliance with the ...

One lawsuit has begat another in California. Ocwen Financial Corp. has alleged that the monitor appointed to review its business practices in the wake of a mortgage servicing settlement ran through an almost $45 million budget in half the time and with half the work. Ocwen alleges that Fidelity Information Services overbilled and charged for improper expenses, including associate trips to casinos and strip clubs.

Regions Bank, one of the top 20 U.S. banks, renewed its agreement to use LoanSphere MSP on its first mortgage loans and will also be converting home equity loans and lines over to LoanSphere MSP.

DS News sat down with Michael Danlang, VP and Global Head of Service Delivery with Sutherland Mortgage Services, Inc., to discuss how technology will enhance practices within the mortgage servicing industry. Editor's note: this feature appeared in the February issue of DS News.

The Urban Institute hosts housing market experts to discuss recent and emerging issues found in the mortgage servicing industry.

Doug Oliver, partner with Anselmo Lindberg Oliver, recently spoke with DS News about two issues that he sees as symptoms of the “general negative view” that the political class and the general public have toward the mortgage servicing industry.