ASF Conferees Weigh Prospects for Housing, Rebound, Less Agency Mortgage Dominance
January 27, 2012
The U.S. residential housing market used to provide the lions share of business for non-agency asset securitization, but experts at this weeks American Securitization Forum say it will take years for the sorely damaged housing market to recover and the nationalized mortgage finance system to be overhauled. Supply and demand fundamentals in the housing market are severely broken, said Laurie Goodman, senior managing director at Amherst Securities Group. There are some 2.9 million borrowers in foreclosure or more than 12 months delinquent, plus another 400,000 units of real estate-owned properties. With...