Achieve Home Loans is expected to close a $170.1 million HELOC MBS later this month.

Noncore products going into GSE securitizations saw less drop off than core products in the first quarter. (Includes data table.)

A variety of non-QM mortgage-backed securities hit the market in the first two weeks of April, including a $404.3 million jumbo deal from Redwood Trust.

A total of 11 new MBS hit the market in the past two weeks. Chase accounted for four of the deals, with two jumbo offerings, an investment property loan securitization in partnership with Visio-Beach Point Mortgage Trust and a securitization of closed-end second liens.

A challenging market for fix-and-flip homes has led more investors to seek financing on their projects.

FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon and Ginnie Mae Senior Vice President of Capital Markets John Getchis spoke during a recent Ginnie Latin America Roundtable in Washington, DC.

Morningstar DBRS assigned a preliminary A rating to the deal that includes 370 short-term loans with a principal balance of $158.4 million.

Annaly Capital Management is preparing to issue a rare non-agency MBS stocked solely with bank-originated adjustable-rate mortgages. Loans in the MBS were originated by Associated Bank.

A New York Federal Reserve study found that the secondary market loan sales could help boost capital at CDFI-approved lenders.

Fed researchers model an economy in which safe, stable agency MBS are the instigators of market turmoil and financial crisis.