Unison home equity sharing agreements now available in Oregon; Rain City issues $200 million RTL securitization; Visio Lending offers discount on short-term rental loans; eRESI raises new funding from insurance companies.

Two new unrated RTL securitizations were issued in the past couple of weeks despite growing investor interest in rated deals.

The $166 million unrated deal is the first in a shifting strategy for the RTL lender.

The lender completed a capital raise, with plans to originate more residential transition loans and potentially issue MBS.

DSCR and investor loans are seeing strong interest from investors due to the housing market and new rating methodologies.

Genesis Capital has issued more than $1 billion in rated residential transition loan securitizations since Morningstar DBRS started rating the securitizations in March.

New rating criteria for securitizations of residential transition loans have helped increase uniformity across recent issuance.

The real estate mortgage trust is ramping up its acquisitions of residential transition loans in hopes of building a steady pipeline of rated RTL MBS deals in the coming quarters.

While profits at the business-purpose lender declined in the second quarter, executives at the nonbank are optimistic about growth.

Non-QM, home equity originations and business-purpose loans from Newrez and Genesis Capital helped Rithm in the second quarter.