Tal Frank, president of the company, noted that mortgages made to physicians maintain a near zero delinquency rate, even those without a downpayment.

Quicken is the first major lender in the nation to challenge the government in this regard by filing a lawsuit.

The lender says government investigators have conducted lengthy depositions with numerous Quicken leaders…

The trend reflects the surge in VA home loan originations over the past few years at a time when the FHA has lost market share to private mortgage insurers.

In trading Monday, Genworth’s stock price was down slightly trading at $7.96. Its 52-week low is $6.75, its high $18.74.

LendingHome is testing residential originations of non-qualified mortgages, among other products.

G-fees will stay the same while the adverse market charge will be eliminated and certain loan-level pricing adjustments will increase. The FHFA also released private mortgage insurer eligibility requirements.

In the jumbo MBS sector, mortgage firms issued $4.60 billion of bonds in 1Q, a hefty 20.3 percent increase from 4Q and more than triple the volume posed during the first three months of 2014.

Laurie Goodman, director of the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center, is among those who support Treasury’s push to include a deal agent in the benchmark non-agency MBS.

If Fannie Mae bought a servicing platform Congress, of course, would blow a gasket...