FHFA May Soon Lower GSE Loan Limits; Redwood Begins to Salivate at the Prospect
September 6, 2013
If the Federal Housing Finance Agency lowers loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac next year, Redwood Trust says it is ready, willing and able to pick up the slack. If that happens, Redwood will step up and fund those loans, no problem, said Mike McMahon, managing director of the real estate investment trust, the most active jumbo MBS issuer in the non-agency market. The executive told Inside MBS & ABS that hes certain that Redwood would have plenty of company as well. There will be little or no disruption in the market, he said. According to McMahon, in 2012 lenders produced...