Prime MBS issuance was up 15% from the third to the fourth quarter, while ECM production faded 15%. The sole growth market in 2023 was home-equity loan securitization. (Includes three data tables.)

Three non-agency MBS hit the market this week and more deals are in the pipeline.

Securitization rates increased for GSE-eligible loans, government-insured mortgages and non-agency mortgages. While bank demand for jumbos is declining, the vast majority of the loans don’t go into MBS. (Includes data table.)

Figure is expected to issue its third HELOC MBS of 2023 and will provide loans to an upcoming Saluda Grade issuance.

Industry analysts are projecting an increase in securitization of home equity loan products in 2024.

CalCon Mutual Mortgage plans to issue a $576.2 million non-agency MBS with mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs. It will be the first non-agency MBS from the issuer.

Hildene Capital Management formed a “strategic relationship” with CrossCountry Mortgage in late 2022, with the lender delivering non-QMs to the asset manager for securitization.

The new issuance from Balbec Capital received a preliminary AAA rating with somewhat higher credit enhancement than a typical expanded-credit MBS. It’s the second scratch-and-dent MBS from Balbec this year.

Redwood Trust has increased its partnerships with banks as it expands its jumbo mortgage acquisitions in the third quarter.

New jumbo issuance from Chase, Goldman Sachs and Redwood Trust kick off the fourth quarter.