The recently public real estate investment trust focuses nearly all of its investments on non-QMs originated by affiliated lenders.

The company’s $450 million issuance has a 30-month term and is backed by houses purchased directly from homeowners.

With new restrictions on GSE sales, lenders are increasingly turning to the non-agency MBS market to sell mortgages for investment properties. Issuers include new and established participants.

Big increases in large-loan CMBS and single-asset/single-borrower transactions helped pump non-agency volume to $37 billion in the second quarter, the highest since the end of 2019. (Includes two data charts.)

Mortgage securitizations from Freedom Mortgage and New Residential Investment are backed by servicing fees, while Rapid Financial Services is peddling its first small-business ABS since 2018.

After focusing on securitization of residential bridge loans, Toorak Capital Partners is preparing an MBS backed by investment-property loans with 30-year terms.

The end of the QM patch — thanks to a maneuver by the FHFA and Treasury — could help the non-agency market compete with the GSEs.

Can the rampage of nonbanks in the primary mortgage market drive securitization rates higher for jumbo mortgages? (Includes data chart.)

Jumbo mortgage originations were up in 2020 but most production remained on the lenders' books. Direct sales of conventional loans to non-agency securitizers also fell. (Includes data chart.)

The U.S. Development Finance Corp. is guaranteeing an offering of securities backed by Ecuadorian mortgage loans. Huh?