Overall, Freddie said its multifamily arm financed 803,000 rental units, more than 95% of which qualified as “affordable.”

The market produced $42.61 billion of new ABS in the fourth quarter, a 38.7% decline from the previous three-month period. That brought year-to-date issuance to $202.02 billion, down 11.0% from 2019.

The concern centers on a clause that states beginning January 2022, the FHFA will cap the amount of mortgages any lender can deliver to the cash window at $1.5 billion over any four-quarter period.

The top contributors include Lima One Capital with a 67.0% share and Constructive Loans at 28.4%.

“Right now business is good,” said Managing Partner and Co-CEO Mike Fierman…

Overall, 2020 was the strongest trading year since 2010...

Chase is set to issue one of the largest post-2010 prime non-agency MBS with new production while Credit Suisse has a smaller non-QM deal with somewhat seasoned mortgages.

Some $7.29 billion of non-agency MBS was issued during the fourth quarter, down 41.5% on a sequential basis.

In January of last year, the flow of VA loans into Ginnie MBS exceeded the volume of FHA loans, a trend that culminated in December, when VA accounted for 57.0% of monthly issuance.