Three senators are pushing for 3 percent downpayment language on the QRM rule.

Private mortgage insurers in 2012 posted their best year since the financial market collapse back in 2008 and suddenly – after being largely left as roadkill in the government’s bailout program – are attracting new capital. Private MIs reported $174.81 billion in total new insurance written in 2012, more than doubling the amount of business they did the year before, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and analysis. With the FHA and VA programs growing at a more deliberate pace, it boosted the private MI share of the primary mortgage insurance market to 32.0 percent, up from 22.7 percent in 2011. A significant part of the private MI rebound came...[Includes three data charts]

Roughly $20 billion of mortgage servicing rights that once belonged to Taylor, Bean & Whitaker are quietly being shopped around.

Joe Anderson, who worked at Countrywide Financial Corp. for 17 years and then Nationstar, is considered the top candidate to get the CEO job at Vericrest Financial.

Thanks, in part, to HARP loans private mortgage insurers in 2012 posted their best year since the financial market collapse back in 2008, according to new figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Fortress Investment Group has raised $1.6 billion to buy mortgage assets, including servicing rights.

Fannie Mae is working on a plan to sell billions of dollars of nonperforming loans in the second quarter.

Officially, the GSE net-worth minimum is set at $2.5 million, but some in the industry think it will double eventually.

The CFPB said mortgage lenders can ask the agency "important" interpretation questions on the many rules that it finalized this year.

President Obama, during his State of the Union address, urged Congress to get the HARP 3.0 refinancing program off the ground.