First Republic Bank has contributed at least 21.3 percent of the loans that have been included in jumbo mortgage-backed securities issued in the first nine months of this year, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. The bank was identified as having contributed $2.18 billion into jumbo MBS issued in the first three quarters of 2015, including $619.19 million in the third quarter. First Republic’s contributions to jumbo MBS issued in the third quarter alone topped the contributions of any other lender in the first nine months of the year. Jumbo MBS issuers and rating services generally disclose...[Includes two data tables]
Agency multifamily MBS issuance dropped more steeply, by 19.7 percent, but that was from the record $30.91 billion issued during the second quarter of this year.
In late December, issuers of new non-agency MBS will become subject to new risk-retention requirements. It’s not clear whether anyone will notice. The vast majority of loans securitized in jumbo MBS over the past few years meet the qualified-mortgage standard. And because federal regulators opted to synchronize the QM standard with the separate qualified residential-mortgage standard, jumbo MBS backed entirely by QMs will be exempt from the 5 percent risk-retention requirement. When the final rule came out, Redwood Trust backed...
Beach Point Capital Management early next week will issue a roughly $75 million MBS collateralized by nonprime mortgages that were originated over the past year by Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, according to officials briefed on the transaction. As Inside MBS & ABS went to press this week, certain details on the security were beginning to leak out, including the fact that Nomura Securities “is running the book” on the deal, said one source. Wells Fargo will be the custodian and backup servicer. The privately held Citadel will continue to service the underlying loans. The yield on the private-place bond is...
It makes sense that Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac g-fees should be used to pay for highway repairs. After all, people drive on highways to reach their homes which were bought with mortgages likely guaranteed by the two.
JPMorgan Chase was set to issue its latest jumbo mortgage-backed security as Inside Nonconforming Markets went to press. The bank’s sixth jumbo MBS of the year was slated to be a $344.87 million deal, according to presale reports. Chase continued to stock its jumbo MBS with loans that have seasoned a while longer than other issuers. Loans in JPMorgan Mortgage Trust 2015-6 had seasoned for an average of nine months, according to DBRS. Nearly 20 percent of the mortgages appear to have application dates from before Jan. 10, 2014. All of the loans subject to standards for qualified mortgages were deemed...
While a number of jumbo lenders reduced their reliance on mortgage brokers in the years after the financial crisis, Primary Capital Mortgage has sourced a large share of its production from brokers. And the lender has earned strong assessments from rating services in the process. Moody’s Investors Service said 71 percent of the jumbo mortgages PCM originated between the second quarter of 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 were through brokers. The lender originated $114 million in jumbos in that span. The majority of PCM’s originations are agency mortgages. The rating service said...
Questions from Inside Nonconforming Markets prompted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to acknowledge last week that its director misspoke during a speech at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual convention. In arguing that the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule hasn’t caused a significant reduction in mortgage originations, Richard Cordray said last week that “most” jumbo loans are non-qualified mortgages. While comprehensive data on the non-QM share of jumbo mortgages is not available, a number of data sources suggest that most jumbos are in fact QMs, not non-QMs. Three of the five largest jumbo lenders told...