Redwood Trust is set to issue its second non-agency jumbo MBS of the year, a $666.13 million security, according to a presale report released today by Kroll Bond Rating Agency. The MBS will largely consist of 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, with 51.4 percent of the originations from First Republic Bank. Plus other mortgage news briefs.
Fannie Mae is ending the practice of assigning different guaranty-fee discounts to the various “affinity groups” or cooperatives that pool mortgages for sale into the secondary market, Inside Mortgage Finance has learned.
After including a significant amount of ARMs in its first issuance of the year, the second non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security of 2013 from Redwood Trust will consist largely of 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, according to a new presale report released by Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
Fourteen months after the White House signaled its intention to make Carol Galante the nation’s next housing commissioner, the Senate on Sunday afternoon finally confirmed her nomination.
GSE MBS business hit a post-crisis record in 2012. A new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitization activity reveals that the two GSEs issued a whopping $1.27 trillion of single-family MBS in 2012.
Forget (for now) the story about Bank of America scuttling the sale of $14 billion of high-touch mortgage servicing rights. Inside Mortgage Finance is hearing that over the past several weeks the megabank was looking to unload upwards of $300 billion in MSRs, or at least talking about it to select buyers. BofA, as we pointed out, doesn’t talk about its servicing sales, though it does acknowledge them (sometimes) in its earnings calls with analysts.…
Mortgage securitization rates remained at records levels through the third quarter of 2012, with 86.3 percent of primary market originations being financed as MBS according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS.
A federal judge recently approved an $11.25 million settlement for investors who purchased $5.26 billion of non-agency MBS issued by jumbo lender Thornburg Mortgage. The lawsuit alleged false and misleading disclosures by Thornburg.
Investors with nearly $1 trillion of holdings of non-agency mortgage-backed securities are concerned about the Obama administration’s latest loan modification proposal, according to Tom Deutsch, executive director of the American Securitization Forum.
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