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As Michael Young prepares to depart as chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association he has two items at the top of his Washington wish list: that regulators “get it right” on both the qualified mortgage and qualified residential mortgage rules.

Keep your ears open in Chicago at the MBA show for hints about which way the minimum net worth requirement is leaning.

Sterling Partners plans to invest several hundred million dollars in mortgage servicing rights.

The latest roundup of regulatory changes and mortgage fraud news.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities have more risk than last year as landlords need to repay maturing debt and vacancies remain elevated.

Opera Solutions is splitting its industry analytics into two offerings.

Everyone should take advantage of the current low interest rates to refinance, but can they qualify? Why some perfectly good borrowers are being turned away.

Springleaf Finance Corp., the subprime lender that’s been raising cash to repay maturing debt by packaging older mortgages into bonds, plans to sell $787 million of home-loan securities.

U.S. Bancorp said third-quarter profit climbed 16% to a record, beating analysts’ estimates as mortgage-banking revenue more than doubled.

Mortgage application volume decreased by 4.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ended Oct. 12.