All of the loans are current, though Fitch noted that 20.4 percent are “dirty current,” having experienced recent delinquencies or incomplete pay-strings…
Securitization of commercial mortgages was down slightly in 2016 as a result of a sharp drop in the non-agency commercial MBS market, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. Meanwhile, the agency multifamily MBS platforms cranked out record new issuance last year. In total, some $209.03 billion of commercial-property MBS were issued last year, a 3.1 percent drop from 2015. It still ranked as the second most-productive year in commercial MBS issuance since 2007, the year before the financial market meltdown. But non-agency CMBS issuance fell...[Includes one data table]
This year, the commercial MBS market will see the influence of the newly effective Securities and Exchange Commission rule on CMBS risk retention, which likely will mean higher credit quality but also a degree of unpredictability when it comes to issuance, according to industry analysts. At Wells Fargo Securities, analysts who cover the CMBS space are forecasting non-agency issuance of $65.0 billion in 2017. “While CMBS issuance has historically grown with the economy, this is not exactly the typical cycle,” they said in a recent client note. “Economic growth has been uneven and property fundamentals seem to be maturing.” Requiring CMBS issuers to retain at least 5 percent of the credit risk adds...
Three of the nation’s most active nonprime mortgage originators – Citadel Loan Servicing, Angel Oak and Deephaven Mortgage – are all working on new MBS deals, a bullish sign for a market that has been mostly dormant for years. Executives at all three shops confirmed to Inside MBS & ABS this week their intention to bring new MBS to market – most likely through rated transactions. As for details, that’s a different matter. All three are...
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