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Mortgage applications increase as rates fall

Mortgage applications increase 0.1% as bonds rally The Mortgage Bankers Association (or MBA) Applications Index rose 0.1% after falling 3.5% the week before. Mortgage applications had been mired at lows……

Ocwen Financial (OCN) Stock Climbing Today Following Mortgage Servicing Rights Sale

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Shares of Ocwen Financial Corp. are climbing, higher by 3.75% to $9.96 in midday trading Monday, following the company's announcement from earlier today that it signed an agreement in principle to sell its mortgage servicing rights to non-bank residential mortgage servicer Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc.  . Ocwen Loan Servicing will sell its $9.8 billion portfolio of …

New mortgage crisis brewing: Bove

There's a new mortgage crisis brewing — only this one is completely different than the one in 2008, says bank analyst Dick Bove.