Redwood Trust issued its latest non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security last week, two days after presale reports on the deal were published. It was a quick turnaround for the real estate investment trust, as jumbo MBS investors have generally had at least a week to mull investing in deals before they close. The mortgages in the $346.32 million Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-11 also had an exceptionally young weighted-average loan age of 0.5 months, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency ...

Credit Suisse issued its latest non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security at the end of August, about one month after the previous issuance from the investment bank. Mortgages in the latest security, the $399.77 million CSMC Trust 2013-7, were seasoned an average of three months, according to DBRS. The mortgages have a weighted average interest rate of 3.875 percent. All of the mortgages have 30-year fixed-rate terms, and one has a 10-year interest-only feature. The deal received AAA ratings with ...

Correspondent lenders whose mortgages end up in non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed securities could be required by issuers to retain a portion of the risk from the issuance, according to the net risk-retention rule proposed last week by federal regulators. As with the risk-retention rule originally proposed in 2011, the new proposal allows security sponsors to require certain originators to retain risk on securitized assets. Issuers of non-agency MBS subject to risk-retention requirements would be ...

Fannie Mae is starting to market a risk-sharing transaction to investors. A Fannie spokesman said the government-sponsored enterprise is working with the Federal Housing Finance Agency to meet the goals set by the conservator of the GSEs. Mark Lefanowicz will be the CEO of Fenway Summer’s mortgage venture, according to an announcement this week by Raj Date, the founder of the firm. Fenway Summer plans to originate non-qualified mortgages and Lefanowicz has previously worked at ... [Includes five briefs]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is phasing out the Saver and Standard loan products under the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program in favor of a new reverse mortgage that limits the amount of money a borrower can draw at closing to 60 percent of the value of the home. The fixed and adjustable HECM Standard and Saver options will still be available until Sept. 29, said HUD. The revised principal limit, pricing and disbursement policies for the new HECM product will become effective on Sept. 30. The revised HECM guidance also ...

Purchase-money lending increased by a hefty 37 percent, climbing to an estimated $163 billion in the second quarter, according to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Some trade groups, including the California Mortgage Bankers Association and National Association of Realtors are not happy with the idea of lower loan limits.

The legal action against JPMorgan and UBS is part of the NCUA’s larger pursuit of 11 lawsuits tied to CU purchases of $14 billion in non-agency MBS.

Look for an update late Thursday on the sale of Cole Taylor Mortgage. Meanwhile, does anyone care that credit unions are holding 30-year jumbo mortgages in portfolio?

Although agency originations and refinance activity continued to dominate residential mortgage lending during the second quarter of 2013, a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis and ranking reveals that both those components were losing steam. In fact, the only product category to show growth during the period was the jumbo market, where originations increased by 9.3 percent and reached their highest quarterly volume – an estimated $59 billion – since the third quarter of 2007. On a year-to-date basis, jumbo originations were up 17.7 percent from the first half of last year. Agency production still accounted...[Includes two data charts]