Interest shortfalls in the residential MBS space continued to drift higher across different collateral types, tranche types and vintages throughout 2013, according to Morningstar Credit Ratings. “As of the December 2013 remittance cycle, nearly one out of five deals (19.1 percent) in our sample experienced a shortfall in at least one tranche,” Morningstar said in a recent report. Interest shortfalls take place...
Although the city of Richmond, CA, is still toying with the idea of using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages out of non-agency MBS trusts, it has yet to receive final approvals to do so. Moreover, even though speculation is mounting that its “partner” in the controversial tactic, Mortgage Resolution Partners, might be going away, the city’s mayor said she hasn’t given up. In an interview with Inside MBS & ABS this week, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin noted that “Eighteen elected officials I have talked to have shown an interest” in the concept. Those officials include representatives from San Pablo, CA, San Francisco, and smaller cities around Los Angeles. She also has spoken with officials in Irvington and Newark, NJ. Wall Street has lobbied...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, as part of its new “servicing project,” is once again reviewing minimum fees paid to servicers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, according to industry advisors briefed on the matter. Among other things, the servicing project is reviewing how large-scale packages of GSE receivables are sold and transferred. This was not entirely unexpected, given the massive sales of mortgage servicing rights the past 18 months. But mortgage bankers thought changing the minimum servicing fee of 25 basis points was a dead issue.
Freddie Prices First Risk-Sharing Transaction of 2014. Freddie Mac this week announced a $1 billion offering of its Structured Agency Credit Risk debt notes. The deal is backed by 140,000 residential loans, representing an unpaid principal balance of approximately $32.4 billion. This STACR pool consists of 30-year fixed-rate single-family mortgages acquired by Freddie in the second quarter of 2013.More than 65 investors participated in the offering, Freddie said.
Mortgage executives are praying that even though eminent domain plans have been talked about and brought to a vote in a handful of cities, that it never gets used.
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