As a hectic year of mortgage industry merger and acquisition activity comes to a close — and engagement season in full swing — we thought it would be fitting to give this year's top M&A deals the same treatment.
Here's a recap of the mortgage industry's biggest M&A deals of 2018. Because what's an M&A deal if not the marriage of two companies?
#totheWaMunandStars — Washington Mutual and Nationstar
Target: Nationstar Mortgage Holdings
Price: $1.9 Billion
Close Date: July 31
The shareholders of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings and WMIH Corp. each voted to
#ShellsaidYes — New Residential and Shellpoint Partners
Target: Shellpoint Partners
Price: $190 million
Close Date: July 2018
New Residential Investment Corp.
#LoveineveryCornerstone — Guild Mortgage and Cornerstone
Target: Cornerstone Mortgage
Price: Undisclosed
Close Date: March 1
Guild Mortgage added to its Midwestern mortgage origination operations through the
#WentwosayIdo — Ocwen and PHH
Target: PHH Corp.
Price: $360 million
Close Date: Oct. 4
Ocwen Financial Corp.’s
#Franklinmydear — Citizens Bank and Franklin American
Target: Franklin American Mortgage
Price: $511 million
Close Date: Aug. 1
Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., will pay
#oohALa — CoreLogic and a la mode
Target: a la mode
Price: Undisclosed
Close Date: April 2018
CoreLogic, which has already acquired several appraisal technology and services vendors,
#Omahappilyeverafter — Mutual of Omaha and Synergy One Lending
Target: Synergy One Lending
Price: Undisclosed
Close Date: July 16
With its
#AIVAfoundherKnight — Black Knight and AIVA
Target: Heavy Water (AIVA)
Price: Undisclosed
Close Date: June 2018
With its acquisition of artificial intelligence and machine learning developer
#LoveGenworththeOcean — China Oceanwide and Genworth
Target: Genworth
Price: $2.7 billion
Target Close Date: Jan. 31, 2019
Genworth Financial's mortgage insurance business, which had slipped in market share, has
While the companies aimed to seal the deal by the end of the year, their new completion goal has been extended to Jan. 31, 2019.