Competing Government Objectives, Other Factors Slow Down Recovery of Non-Agency MBS Market
June 3, 2011
A revival in the non-agency MBS market may still be years away because of competing and seemingly contradictory government objectives for housing finance, according to a new analysis from Standard & Poors. The government is doing many things all at once to resuscitate the housing market and hasten economic recovery, but those efforts may actually place recovery on a slow track, said Erkan Erturk, an S&P research analyst and author of the report. Erturk concludes that the housing downturn drove the securitization market away from...