Citadel Says It Will Absolutely Securitize Nonprime Mortgages in the Next 12 Months
June 7, 2013
At first, residential origination volumes were slow at Citadel Loan Servicing Corp., a new player in a lonely market: nonprime production. But that was two months ago, when the Irvine, CA-based company first opened its doors. People are finally calling us, said Dan Perl, CEO of the privately held nonbank. By the time June ends, the company will have funded almost $6 million for the month, maybe as much as $8 million. The origination numbers, of course, are miniscule compared to monthly conventional volume, but in the new nonprime space Citadel is probably doing more business than the two-dozen or so nonprime or hard money lenders that are quietly toiling away in selected markets. For the industry to revive...