More extensive rehab projects and growing investor demand have pushed some lenders to consider getting more lenient with some standards for residential transition loans.

Demand from insurance companies is helping fuel originations of mortgages underwritten with debt service coverage ratios.

The residential debt platform launched this week. It is led by a former executive at Fidelis Investors.

To thrive in the non-agency space, many lenders point to diversification, particularly in home equity products.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has announced a board meeting for March 19 to discuss two proposals to adjust capital requirements for banks.

Originations of residential transition loans saw little growth at the start of this year, while debt service coverage ratio loan volume increased.

Speakers at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s servicing solutions conference discussed what makes a good non-agency servicer.

The overall levels of delinquencies, though, vary on a nominal and age-equivalent basis.

Investors are showing strong demand for non-agency MBS, leaving leaders of issuers optimistic.

With the potential for interest rates to decline further, originators in the RTL and DSCR space have varying strategies for dealing with volume changes.