S&P Global Ratings released a revised methodology and assumptions this week for non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued in 2009 and later. The revision included slightly more favorable treatment of mortgages to multiple borrowers and recalibrated loss severity assumptions, including an over/undervaluation framework that incorporates property values in markets compared with price-to-income ratios. New Penn Financial loosened ... [Includes two briefs]

PIMCO also believes government MBS loan limits should be based on borrower income, not housing prices…

PennyMac likely will use the proceeds to buy additional servicing rights…

It appears that Pershing Square is now under water on its GSE investments...

Suffice to say, Fannie and Freddie are two cash cows that only a crazy person would eliminate, unless that crazy person doesn’t like money…

MBS backed by expanded-credit loans increased by more than 400 percent last year, with an even better year anticipated in 2018. And although the growth in terms of dollar volume wasn’t huge, due diligence firms are beginning to feel bullish about their prospects.

New jumbo MBS from Redwood Trust are coming fast and furious after a lull in the fourth quarter of 2017. The real estate investment trust has multiple execution options for the jumbos it aggregates and MBS issuance now looks to be providing better returns than whole-loan sales.

Borrowing from the FHLB advance window would save REITs a ton of money…

The GSE-eligible loans have an average unpaid principal balance of $549,259 while the non-agency mortgages have a UPB of $703,898…

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