Saluda Grade has ramped up its efforts in the home equity agreements space with new securitizations and lines of credit.

Six expanded-credit MBS started marketing within the past two weeks. There’s also a rare prime non-agency deal in the market.

Chase teamed with Blackstone for a $308.1 million non-agency MBS backed by mortgages for investor properties.

Altisource Asset Management is considering changes to its non-agency origination business as losses pile up. Alternatives under consideration include a sharp pivot to electric vehicle charging.

A slew of non-agency MBS hit the market; Roc360 forms a real estate investment trust; Deephaven Mortgage launches second mortgage product.

CrossCountry Mortgage teamed with Hildene Capital Management on originations of expanded-credit mortgages and MBS issuance.

The non-agency secondary market has been slow recently. But three new securities show there’s still some action.

After a lull around the end of the first quarter, a number of expanded-credit MBS have hit the market, with more deals planned.

Non-QM lenders and MBS issuers are making adjustments amid a volatile secondary market. Issues include timing for MBS issuance and competition for new production.

MISMO is working to update data fields established by the American Securitization Forum in 2009 for use in the non-agency MBS market.