An affiliate of Shelter Growth Capital Partners issued its first nonprime MBS late last week, according to offering documents obtained by Inside MBS & ABS. The $113.71 million deal included non-qualified mortgages from a number of lenders. The mortgages in SG Residential Mortgage Trust 2016-1 were acquired by SG Capital Partners, an affiliate of Shelter Growth, an investment manager and hedge fund. SG Capital Partners started acquiring non-agency mortgages in January 2015. As of June 1, Shelter Growth had...
Fannie Mae this week, in partnership with “fintech” lender SoFi, rolled out a new cash-out refinance mortgage aimed at borrowers who want to tap home equity to pay down their college loans. According to interviews with Fannie officials, the rollout is driven by cutting guaranty fees that usually accompany Fannie Mae cash-out mortgages. Fannie’s average g-fee on new business was...
The government-sponsored enterprises are well on their way to trimming their retained mortgage portfolios to less than $250.0 billion each by the start of 2018. As of the end of the third quarter, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a combined mortgage portfolio of $615.65 billion, down 3.3 percent from June. While Freddie historically had the larger retained holdings, the two portfolios are now roughly equal. Under the current terms of their conservatorship, Fannie and Freddie are required...[Includes one data table]
Investors said that market is in the “sweet spot” when it comes to mortgage credit, while speaking at a symposium in Washington sponsored by the Urban Institute and CoreLogic this week. John Vibert, managing director and co-head of structured products for Prudential, said his company is much more interested in financing nonperforming loans than in owning such assets. “We think...
The government-sponsored enterprises continued to sell their holdings of vintage nonprime mortgages and non-agency mortgage-backed securities during the third quarter of 2016. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stopped acquiring such assets after the financial crisis, but the loans and MBS routinely account for an outsized share of credit losses at the GSEs. Fannie and Freddie held nonprime mortgages with a total unpaid principal balance of ... [Includes one data chart]
Many industry experts are advising Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to expand so-called front-end approaches to credit-risk transfers that have so far relied heavily on structured debt notes and reinsurance contracts arranged long after loans are sold to the two government-sponsored enterprises. In a comment letter filed with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Redwood Trust suggested that “a more robust front-end CRT program [should] at least match the volume of back-end transactions.” Through the end of September, Fannie and Freddie have issued $35.88 billion of back-end debt notes covering $1.223 trillion of single-family mortgages, according to Inside MBS & ABS, an affiliated newsletter. Redwood is...
After hearing lenders’ concerns about the increased reporting burden they would face from some of the changes that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to make to their Uniform Closing Dataset requirements, the two government-sponsored enterprises agreed to postpone the requirement to provide the seller closing data for one year. “The GSEs understand the difficulties that acquiring the seller data presents, particularly as many lenders are still working through their processes to obtain the seller closing disclosure and data from settlement companies,” the pair said late last month in letters to the Mortgage Bankers Association. “In recognition of these challenges, the GSEs have agreed...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported a combined net profit of $5.53 billion in the third quarter of 2016 with income from guarantee fees strong in both the single-family and multifamily segment. Both government-sponsored enterprises expect guarantee fee income to continue to be a driving force. Freddie’s net profit of $2.33 billion represents its strongest performance since the second quarter of 2015, when it earned $4.17 billion. Stellar g-fee income and a steep reduction in hedging losses helped contribute to that growth. Meanwhile, Fannie reported...
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