Close to $15 billion of GSE-eligible mortgages have gone into non-agency MBS this year, including many loans for investment properties and second homes. That’s expected to slow due to a removal of restrictions on the GSEs.
Some non-agency lenders are using the newer QM standards, which allow more loans to receive QM status. Others are waiting to see if the CFPB will alter the provisions.
Rocket’s $968.4 million jumbo MBS is one of the largest from a nonbank post 2010. And after years of contributing non-QMs to MBS issued by others, AmWest is going to issue its own deal.
CoreVest issued a securitization involving bridge loans for residential properties; a prime non-agency MBS issued by JPMorgan Chase in 2018 is on watch for a downgrade.
Chase issued another prime non-agency MBS with a balance topping $1.0 billion. The firm also issued an investment-property deal while Lone Star offered an expanded-credit MBS.
The lender curtailed its jumbo lending in the early days of the pandemic. Now, jumbos account for a growing share of United Wholesale’s production and the firm is issuing non-agency MBS.
In the past two weeks, $2.74 billion of non-agency MBS were gobbled up by investors. GSE-eligible mortgages for non-owner-occupied properties accounted for half of the dollar volume in the deals.
Angelo Gordon Mortgage Investment Trust expects returns as high as 18% from securitizing non-QMs. The REIT and others are working to increase their acquisitions of the loans.
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