Prices for jumbo mortgages softened near the end of 2017 and then markedly improved in the first two months of this year, according to officials at Redwood Trust. “As they often do, market conditions rebounded in January and we took full advantage,” Dashiell Robinson, an executive vice president at Redwood, said this week during the real estate investment trust’s earnings call. The company priced five non-agency mortgage-backed securities in January and February at much better execution ...
Plans at Wells Fargo to issue non-agency mortgage-backed securities in 2017 didn’t come to fruition. But growth limitations recently placed on the bank by the Federal Reserve have prompted speculation that Wells could issue non-agency MBS this year. This month, the Fed issued a cease and desist order that temporarily limits the firm’s maximum total consolidated assets to the level they were as of the end of 2017. The order was one of the last acts of former Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who ...
Ellington Financial is looking to ramp up activity involving non-qualified mortgages after a positive reception for its first mortgage-backed security. In November, Ellington issued a $141.2 million MBS predominantly backed by non-QMs. The deal closed with “excellent execution and strong investor demand,” according to Laurence Penn, president and CEO of Ellington. Investors included Putnam Investments, Janus Henderson Investors and JPMorgan Asset Management. “We had a ...
The nonprime mortgages held in portfolio by the government-sponsored enterprises continued to decline in 2017, according to an analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. And while the GSEs sold vintage non-agency mortgage-backed securities during the year, pre-crisis Alt A mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are largely running off instead of being sold. Fannie and Freddie had a total of $108.23 billion in nonprime mortgage holdings ... [Includes one data chart]
S&P Global Ratings released a revised methodology and assumptions this week for non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued in 2009 and later. The revision included slightly more favorable treatment of mortgages to multiple borrowers and recalibrated loss severity assumptions, including an over/undervaluation framework that incorporates property values in markets compared with price-to-income ratios. New Penn Financial loosened ... [Includes two briefs]
According to their financial disclosures and company officials, both GSEs saw a sharp decline in the average guarantee fee they charged on new MBS issued during the fourth quarter…
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