The real estate investment trust’s income from the aggregation of jumbo mortgages dropped while its business-purpose lending segment flourished. Margins on jumbos took a hit due to competition in the sector.
Chase was the most active player in the non-agency MBS market in late July, with deals involving jumbos, investment-property mortgages and a risk-sharing transaction.
Toorak Capital Partners expanded its securitization activities into 30-year mortgages for investment properties. Bayview Asset Management and Goldman Sachs have jumbo MBS in the market, and a number of other issuers are planning deals.
Churchill Real Estate launched a table funding option, Toorak a securitization and Sachem raised $43 million via a stock sale. Meanwhile, the fix-and-flip market was on the decline in the first quarter.
The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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