Any successor to the GSEs that operates with a federal guarantee should charge the same guaranty fee price for all sellers, regardless of size, the trade group says.
Speculators have been gobbling up GSE junior preferred and common, hoping for a payout down the road tied to either the resumption of dividends or money that might come from a recovery fund.
EverBank Financial is preparing to issue a $303.30 million non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security, according to a presale report issued by DBRS this week. The MBS has similar characteristics to the $307 million jumbo security EverBank issued in March. DBRS cited strong reps and warrants on the deal, including automatic reviews for seriously delinquent loans, mandatory arbitration and no sunset provisions. However, the rating service said EverBanks limited securitization history and ...
Since 2008, big banks have largely held their non-agency jumbo originations in portfolio, seeing better execution than non-agency MBS issuance, but all that could be changing.
JPMorgan Chase is set to issue a unique jumbo MBS, its second of the year, that will include originations from 20 different lenders that far outweigh the companys contributions to the deal. Another bank, EverBank, this week took steps to issue its second jumbo deal of 2013 as well. Since 2008, big banks have largely held their non-agency jumbo originations in portfolio, seeing better execution than non-agency MBS issuance. However, strong demand from non-agency MBS investors and a desire to shrink mortgage exposure has prompted Chase to resume issuing jumbo MBS. Chase declined...
Non-agency MBS execution for certain high-quality mortgages is competitive with agency MBS execution, according to industry analysts. A slight increase in the guaranty fees charged by the government-sponsored enterprises would make non-agency securitization even more attractive, though the incentive for banks to hold non-agency originations in portfolio remains strong. Non-agency MBS execution is currently competitive with agency MBS execution for purchase mortgages with loan-to-value ratios below 70 percent and credit scores above 740, according to analysts at Barclays Capital. For the cleanest collateral, non-agency execution could be...
The auction market for nonperforming mortgages is picking up a full head of steam this year and could be bolstered by securitizations, according to investors and advisors who play in that space. Gordon Albrecht, executive vice president of FCI Lender Services, said he has a hedge fund client that is presently working on a $40 million securitization of nonperforming residential loans. Albrecht said he could not identify the client, though he noted that Wells Fargo is involved in the transaction along with a foreign bank. He added...
Bank and thrift holdings of non-mortgage ABS declined slightly in the first quarter of 2013, but remained well above a year ago, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis. Banks and thrifts held $163.7 billion of ABS in portfolio as of the end of March, off 0.5 percent from the previous quarter. But early 2013 holdings were up 9.0 percent from the first quarter of last year, including increases in most ABS categories. The call-report ABS data include...[Includes one data chart]
Home prices are improving at a rapid pace throughout the nation, sparking bidding wars in certain markets, according to several different indices. But this rise in home equity is also spurring talk that the two largest players in residential finance Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be sitting on large unrealized gains in both their MBS and whole loan portfolios. One veteran MBS investor told Inside MBS & ABS that home values have improved so much over the past 120 days that the government-sponsored enterprises may be looking at monster increases in the value of their holdings. Keep in mind that these two are sitting on loans where a year ago the loan-to-value ratio was 115 percent, said this investor. But most of this stuff isnt underwater anymore. If [the GSEs] re-calculate their reserves, they will see some huge gains. In its 10-Q filing for the first quarter, Fannie reported...