Multifamily lender Walker & Dunlop plans to expand its small-loan business, confident about investor demand and performance of such assets in the secondary market.
Mortgage-investing real estate investment trust New Residential Investment Corp., New York, informed the ailing Ditech Financial that it plans to terminate its roughly $83.7 billion subservicing contract.
Depending on what type of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac reform occurs in the next few years, there’s a growing concern in the market that foreign investors — and others — may shy away from their MBS unless there’s an explicit guarantee on the securities.
Nonbank mortgage operations continued their assault on the agency MBS market in 2018, increasing their penetration in both new issuance and servicing. [Includes two data charts.]
Activity in the non-agency mortgage market is likely to get a boost from any reforms of the government-sponsored enterprises undertaken by the Trump administration.
An affiliate of Annaly Capital Management this week issued a non-agency mortgage-backed security stocked with investment-property mortgages eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises.
Lone Star Funds, an affiliate of Caliber Home Loans, is set to issue a nonprime mortgage-backed security with some of the least seasoned loans seen in a post-crisis deal.
Redwood Trust announced last week that it plans to acquire 5 Arches, an originator and asset manager of business-purpose real estate loans. Redwood acquired a 20 percent stake in the lender last year with an option to fully ac-quire the Irvine, CA-based company.
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