Mortgage Servicing - Schedule of Components of Servicing and Subservicing Fees (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022	Mar. 31, 2021
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]
Servicing	$ 88,535	$ 63,892
Subservicing	14,678	3,487
MAV	16,623	0
NRZ	67,146	80,385
Servicing and Subservicing fees, total	186,983	147,764
Late charges	10,020	9,231
Reverse subservicing ancillary income	3,086	0
Recording Fees	3,250	3,945
Loan collection fees	2,949	2,949
Boarding and deboarding fees	1,761	3,019
Custodial accounts (float earnings)	983	1,008
GSE forbearance fees	184	566
Other, net	3,408	3,256
Servicing and subservicing fees	25,640	23,974
Servicing and subservicing fees	$ 212,623	$ 171,738

Boarding and de-boarding fees.

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All amounts that, per contract, are due in exchange for servicing or subservicing the financial asset.

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Contractually specified servicing fees collected on behalf of counterparty.

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All amounts that, per contract, are due to the subservicer in exchange for subservicing the financial asset and would no longer be received by a subservicer if the owners of the servicing rights were to exercise their authority under the contract to shift the subservicing to another servicer.

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Represents amount related to interest earned on unremitted loan payments held in custodial accounts, are due to the servicer in exchange for servicing the financial asset.

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GSE forbearance fees.

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Represents loan collection fees paid by the borrower to the servicer for automated payment services.

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Recording Fees

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Reverse subservicing ancillary income.

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This represents the amount of the fee earned, generally expressed as a percent of UPB, from the borrowers’ payments. Also includes late fees, prepayment penalties, float earnings and other ancillary fees.

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Servicing fee collected on mortgage servicing rights for which rights have been sold to NRZ.

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All amounts that are due to the servicer of a financial asset, excluding contractually specified servicing fees and late fees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 50
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
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All amounts that, per contract, are due to the servicer in exchange for servicing the financial asset and would no longer be received by a servicer if the beneficial owners of the serviced assets (or their trustees or agents) were to exercise their actual or potential authority under the contract to shift the servicing to another servicer. Depending on the servicing contract, those fees may include some or all of the difference between the interest rate collected on the asset being serviced and the rate to be paid to the beneficial owners of the asset.

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Amount of contractually specified servicing fee, late fee, and ancillary fee recognized as income for servicing asset and servicing liability.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 50
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=125521744&loc=d3e122596-111746

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All amounts that are due to the servicer of a financial asset as a result of the debt holder not meeting the monthly payment terms.

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