Freddie celebrated its 50th anniversary in July with a historic $107 billion in single-family MBS issuance. Purchase-mortgage business was up at all three agencies. (Includes two data charts.)
It’s here: A mortgage-backed security, 15-years in duration, that pays investors a note rate of 1.5%. Would you lock up your money for that long? You may not have a choice.
In the first half of 2020, Freddie priced 28 deals totaling $20.73 billion. So far in the third quarter, it has already brought 10 and has 13 transactions on its calendar through September.
The economic effects of the pandemic have slowed refi activity for investment properties. That, in turn, has dampened prepayment speeds for 100% investment-property pools, Wells Fargo Securities said.
The New York Federal Reserve purchased $9.81 billion in agency MBS on Monday and Tuesday, in addition to $22.89 billion bought last week. It’s been nearly three weeks since it sold any of its MBS holdings.
The REIT’s plan to terminate its management agreement with PRCM “for cause” would let it off the hook from paying a $144 million termination fee. But PRCM isn’t going down without a fight.
By examining how well LIBOR has correlated over time with actual bank funding costs, Federal Reserve economists have demonstrated the London rate is no better at this task than risk-free rates like SOFR.
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