It hasn’t been an easy time for due diligence firms that make their living off the mortgage business, at least not this year. Firms like Allonhill LLC, which bulked up on staff to handle the rush of work on investor buyback demands, have been cutting back in recent months as those contracts run their natural course.
Fannie Mae may be having second thoughts about selling nonperforming loans into the secondary market where cash-rich investors are waiting with bated breath.
According to an analysis by Fitch Ratings, the overall charges for a simple jumbo non-agency MBS across all note-holders would increase to between 6.3 percent and 8.2 percent under the new proposal.
Is Navy Federal's no-downpayment product safe? It believes so, and is quite happy with the delinquency experience on the loan but won't provide specifics.
Moody’s said the JPMorgan Mortgage Trust 2013-1 has a weak representations and warranties framework, a restrictive rep and warrant enforcement mechanism and a lack of risk retention by Chase.
With several new jumbo MBS deals in the works – from Redwood Trust, JPMorgan Chase and EverBank Financial – it would seem likely that a robust market might develop for the subordinate tranches of these transactions. But so far it’s been a case of plenty of interest in the instrument, but little in the way of available product.
JPMorgan Chase and EverBank Financial are separately working on non-agency jumbo mortgage-backed security deals, according to presale reports released this week. Issuance by the two banks will double the number of post-crisis non-agency jumbo MBS issuers, and they are doing things a little differently than standard-setter Redwood Trust. After the pending deals close, $3.59 billion in non-agency jumbo MBS will have been issued in 2013, according to the Inside Mortgage Finance MBS Database, more than the ...
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