Freddie Mac recently confirmed that it will provide indirect financing of $51.3 million to Reven Housing REIT, a publicly traded company that owns and manages 824 single-family rental units.
Although prepayment speeds on Ginnie Mae MBS are now at the lowest level since 2014, agency Executive Vice President Maren Kasper expressed persistent concerns about the matter in remarks at the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association this week.
Fitch Ratings issued a commentary this week criticizing other rating services for the preliminary ratings they made on a non-agency MBS from Galton Funding. The company also suggested that it will increase its output of unsolicited commentary due to “late-cycle credit behavior.”
ABS issued as private placements tend to draw less demand from investors than deals registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but issuers have a number of incentives to bring deals as private placements, according to industry participants.
Issuance of new non-mortgage ABS dropped significantly from the second to the third quarter of 2018, although a few sectors saw increased volume, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking of the market. [Includes two data charts.]
An affiliate of Annaly Capital Management is preparing to issue a $384 million mortgage-backed security stocked with non-qualified mortgages and loans for investment properties…
With loan production on the wane and profit margins thinning, warehouse lenders, financiers and even regulators are growing increasingly anxious about nonbank liquidity, a topic that received an airing at the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association this week.
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