Bayview Asset Management and Verus Mortgage Capital separately started marketing non-agency MBS in the days after Hurricane Ian made landfall. Rating services that assessed the deals differed in their focus on potential damage from the hurricane.
An affiliate of Bayview Asset Management is set to issue its first jumbo MBS since December. Loans in the deal have seasoned for an average of 4.5 months and were sourced from a number of lenders.
Angel Oak Companies is grappling with weak demand for non-QMs. One of the firm’s lending units laid off about 20% of its staff last week and Angel Oak’s REIT unexpectedly replaced its CEO this week.
The mortgage exchange will now facilitate originations and sales of various types of non-QMs, with “some of the industry’s most generous guidelines” for the products.
After aggregating mortgages from some of the largest players in the non-agency market, Pacific Western Bank is looking to sell risk on the loans that have a total unpaid principal balance of $2.68 billion.
Non-QM impairments decline after two-month increase; Balbec unit offers non-QM MBS with loans from Sprout; new CIO at Redwood; Velocity quickly packages business-purpose loans.
Spreads had steadily widened in the expanded-credit sector between February and July. But as spreads declined in August, demand for expanded-credit MBS appears to have improved.
MISMO is getting close to releasing revised standards for data collection in the non-agency MBS market. The effort could prompt efficiencies for lenders, due diligence firms and rating services.
Improvements to practices in the non-agency MBS market will help to protect investors from lenders that don’t make it through the current market contraction, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.