A total of $32.6 billion of income-property mortgages were securitized during the first three months of 2014, a soft beginning for a market that posted its best year since the financial collapse during 2013. Commercial mortgage securitization – including non-agency commercial MBS and multifamily securitizations by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae – declined by 22.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014. Total issuance was off 30.4 percent from the same period last year. Both agency and non-agency issuance was...[Includes two data charts]