MBS backed by expanded-credit loans increased by more than 400 percent last year, with an even better year anticipated in 2018. And although the growth in terms of dollar volume wasn’t huge, due diligence firms are beginning to feel bullish about their prospects.
New jumbo MBS from Redwood Trust are coming fast and furious after a lull in the fourth quarter of 2017. The real estate investment trust has multiple execution options for the jumbos it aggregates and MBS issuance now looks to be providing better returns than whole-loan sales.
The average credit score on loans in expanded-credit MBS issued in 2016 and 2017 was 704.9, according to a new analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets.