Most of the non-agency MBS on offer within the past two weeks was stocked with mortgages for investment properties.

Changes are under consideration for determining which firms qualify as community development financial institutions. Under a current proposal, CDFIs would have to follow the CFPB’s ability-to-repay underwriting requirements.

Six expanded-credit MBS started marketing within the past two weeks and there are also offerings of prime jumbos, HELOCs and even a credit-risk transfer deal from Santander Bank.

Non-agency MBS issuance perked up in early January as investor demand improved. Redwood Trust offered a jumbo MBS after a year-long lull in issuance and expanded-credit MBS issuers priced deals at tightening spreads.

Three of the four mortgage securitizations brought to the market this month include large proportions of investment-property loans.

JPMorgan Chase is rolling out its first non-prime mortgage-backed security stocked solely with investment-property loans underwritten using debt service coverage ratios. Chase so far has focused on prime borrowers.

Lenders cut back on jumbo originations in the third quarter, and they kept most of what they produced. The result: a 73% nosedive in prime RMBS issuance from the second quarter. (Includes three data charts.)

Two of the deals are backed by investor debt service coverage ratio mortgages. There is also a 100% HELOC transaction in the works.

Annaly was the top issuer of non-agency MBS in the third quarter. The REIT had to retain more of its issuance than usual due to weak investor demand.

Redwood acquisitions of jumbo mortgages declined by more than 70% on a sequential basis in the third quarter. Officials at the REIT suggested that Redwood will continue to limit loan acquisitions until market dynamics improve.