SG Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm chock full of former Goldman Sachs executives, has launched a new wholesale lender to originate non-qualified mortgages, most of which will wind up in MBS deals.

Increasing use of smart building technologies such as the internet-of-things can benefit commercial real estate, and thus bring meaningful impact to commercial MBS, said DBRS.

A number of commercial real estate lenders are dipping their toes into lending to marijuana dispensaries with the expectation of securitizing these loans, but such ventures might be premature, according to an analysis by the Dechert law firm.

With agency MBS spreads remaining tight, Annaly has put more emphasis on commercial real estate and whole-loan acquisitions…

Mortgage firms providing collateral for the new EC MBS include Fairway Mortgage, Guild Mortgage, PrimeLending and others…

But the program has been a dud...

The differences are tied to how the rating services define full documentation.

JPMorgan is the parent company of the nation’s second largest residential lender, Chase. Trump last decade started a small mortgage brokerage operation in Long Island and then killed it...

So far, the final rule has not been delivered for OMB review, a process that in the past has sometimes taken months to complete.

Mortgage lenders generated an estimated $54.0 billion of new home-equity loans during the second quarter, up 18.7 percent…