As the non-QM market works out its kinks, deal activity should pick up, despite higher interest rates. Due diligence providers like Clayton are hoping the largess comes their way.

All of the participants in the Fed’s TALF program set up in the early days of the pandemic were so-called opportunistic investors that hadn’t previously been buying AAA-rated deals.

The market decline, in response to the end of QE, has been severe, but much more orderly than in 2013.

New reports from S&P and Fitch look at how home price appreciation, affordability and housing overvaluation trends, especially in certain geographic markets, might impact residential MBS.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency estimates around 60% of loans maturing through 2023 would be able to refinance without added costs. But the refi prospects for retail properties and lodging are bad.

MBS trading fell to a yearly low this spring. Meaning? The asset is less valuable or something else entirely? Or both.

The Structured Finance Association has introduced a consensus-built industry guide to a new benchmark that replaces the LIBOR swap curve in fixed-rate structured finance transactions.

In the secondary market, issuers have had to deal with diminished demand for mortgage products originated prior to the recent runup in interest rates. Is the worst behind the sector?

MBS-investing REITs continue to pay sweet dividends but the asset value of their holdings has come under pressure thanks to spiking interest rates. First-quarter earnings should be revealing.

Experts compare today’s bond market to the bearish days of 1994, predicting a recession in the fall. But better times are coming. Maybe.