Maxex has aggregated more than $10 billion worth of product between its founding in 2016 and September of this year. More than $3 billion flowed through the firm’s exchange in the third quarter alone.
Imperial Fund, an affiliate of A&D Mortgage, issued its first non-QM MBS this week. Loans in the deal are concentrated in Florida and more than 15% went to foreign nationals or non-resident aliens.
The Goldman deal includes some mortgages eligible for sale to the GSEs while many of the mortgages in the new Wells MBS received exterior-only appraisals.
Wells Fargo is set to issue its first expanded-credit MBS. Loans in the deal have seasoned for an average of 15 months and other issuers are prepping MBS with somewhat seasoned mortgages.
The majority of loans in Goldman's MBS were included in deals issued in 2017 and 2018 that were subsequently collapsed. Angel Oak, Chase and MFA also issued MBS within the past two weeks.
A proposal by the FHFA regarding capital requirements could help non-agency execution options better compete with the GSEs due to an expected increase to the guarantee fees charged by Fannie and Freddie.
MFA was one day away from pricing its first non-QM MBS in March when volatility from the coronavirus struck. Result: deal scuttled but there's a happy ending: the REIT finally issued its first non-QM MBS this week.