CPR&T predicted that the asset value of Ocwen’s mortgage servicing portfolio likely won’t benefit much from the recent spike in interest rates…

Oddly enough, the nonprime space showed some signs of life last year and hopes are high for 2017 as well…

In addition to crowdfunded hard-money loans, Zeus offers traditional forward and reverse mortgages.

In 2016, Caliber issued three non-agency MBS deals that included prime-quality and jumbo loans, often made to borrowers described in ratings’ reports as consumers with “unblemished” credit.

Presently, Japan is the volume leader in Ginnie ownership at roughly $204 billion…

Some $1.57 billion in prime non-agency MBS were issued in the fourth quarter, down 61.3 percent…

FHA collateral still accounted for over half of Ginnie issuance, but the 2016 total was up a more subdued 8.2 percent from the previous year…

In 2016, the non-agency MBS market was a dud…

It looks like Redwood Trust will be the first out the door with a jumbo security in 2017. Who’s next?

Another record year for Ginnie Mae MBS issuance plus strong volume in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs helped push total securitization of residential mortgages and non-mortgage ABS to a three-year high of $1.698 trillion in 2016. A new Inside MBS & ABS analysis shows that total MBS and ABS issuance – not including commercial MBS – was up 13.3 percent from 2015. Agency production of single-family MBS totaled $1.481 trillion in 2016, up 17.5 percent from the previous year. Over a third of that came from Ginnie, which set a new annual record with $507.5 billion in single-family MBS issuance. The non-agency MBS market was...[Includes three data tables]