Demand in the secondary market for credit risk could help increase issuance of prime non-agency mortgage-backed securities, according to industry analysts. A significant number of investors at the ABS East conference last week said deals across the MBS and ABS markets have been oversubscribed, with the supply of new issuance in recent months seen as insufficient. The conference was produced by Information Management Network in Miami Beach. Peter Sack, a managing director at Credit Suisse, said...
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Originations of adjustable-rate mortgages increased by 40.5 percent from the first quarter of 2017 to the second, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. An estimated $59.0 billion of ARMs were originated in the April-June cycle, with a number of major banks and nonbanks posting solid gains. Chase was...[Includes one data table]
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Nonprime lenders defended mortgages underwritten with borrowers’ bank statements after criticism of the loans by Fitch Ratings. Steven Schwalb, CEO of Angel Oak Home Loans, a nonprime lender that offers bank-statement mortgages, noted that the loans measure borrowers’ cash flow more precisely than the tax returns used for traditional income verification. “We’re comfortable with the risk of that borrower,” he added, during a panel discussion at the ABS East conference produced by Information Management Network last week in Miami Beach. Bank-statement mortgages account...
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Redwood Trust made a couple of adjustments to its new jumbo mortgage-backed security between when presale reports were issued and when the deal closed. Among other changes, the size was reduced slightly due to uncertainty about the impact of damage from Hurricane Irma on certain properties. Redwood removed 12 mortgages from the loan pool, dropping the unpaid principal balance of the MBS from $316.49 million to $307.64 million, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Seven loans were dropped...
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Originations of nonprime mortgages in 2017 are the strongest they have been since the financial crisis but remain well below levels seen before then. Lenders are looking to lean on loan originators and borrowers in an effort to increase volume. Angel Oak Companies is on track to originate more than $1.1 billion of non-qualified mortgages this year, according to the firm. The nonbank has three lending units that largely focus on nonprime mortgages and the $1.1 billion in production will be a company record. “Clearly, investors, brokers and consumers are...
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Among the major originators of interest-only mortgages, production trends were decidedly mixed in the first half of this year, according to an analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. In a group of 12 lenders, six posted lower IO production compared with the first half of last year while some others boosted production significantly. Overall, the lenders originated $6.81 billion in IOs in the first half of 2017, down 19.9 percent from the same period last year. A fair amount of the decline in IO production was driven...[Includes one data table]
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Lenders in the non-agency market are loosening underwriting standards to some extent as refinance activity is expected to decline. Some 22 percent of the lenders surveyed by Fannie Mae said they loosened underwriting standards for non-agency mortgages during the third quarter. And 13 percent said they plan to loosen credit standards in the fourth quarter. Only 3 percent of the non-agency lenders surveyed by Fannie said...
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Mortgage lenders sold $49.74 billion of high-cost home loans to a variety of secondary market investors last year, according to a new Inside Nonconforming Markets analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data released late this week. Sales of high-cost mortgages rose 19.1 percent from 2015 to 2016, and accounted for 3.3 percent of total loans sold last year. HMDA reports are required to flag loans with interest rates that exceed the benchmark prime offered rate – basically the rates for Freddie Mac mortgages – as well as loans that are subject to special consumer protections under the Home Owner Equity Protection Act. Sales of HOEPA loans totaled...[Includes one data table]
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The Structured Finance Industry Group is getting closer to publishing an update to its series of “green papers” addressing reforms to the non-agency mortgage-backed security market. The industry group is soliciting feedback from industry participants on a draft proposal regarding key performance indicators that a deal agent or other parties would use to measure the effectiveness of servicers and master servicers...[Includes three briefs]
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