In the new world of risk retention and commercial real estate securitization, direct issuance could be a potential financing alternative should third-party risk-retention capital become inadequate to meet demand, according to a CRE debt market expert. Direct issuance and other alternative types of transactions may become increasingly viable in addressing the difficulty of refreshing on an ongoing basis the amount of capital necessary to float the commercial MBS industry, said Rick Jones, a partner with Dechert and co-chair of the firm’s finance and real estate group. Jones cited...
This year, nonprime production across the U.S. might top $3 billion to $4 billion at best. At its peak last decade, it was a $1 trillion a year business. That’s not a misprint…
Watt, a former Congressman, wants Congress to reform the GSEs legislatively to solve their conservatorship status and find a path forward for the two enterprises.
Walter notes: “We have already achieved cost reductions in a number of areas, but there can be no assurance that we will be able to reduce costs so as to enable the servicing business to return to profitability in the near term or at all.”
Not only has the proposed sale of First Mortgage Co. fallen apart, but a recent lawsuit filed against the company by a new warehouse lending firm raises serious questions about FMC’s recent profitability and its future. As Inside Mortgage Finance went to press this week, FMC was no longer making new loans, but was still servicing its past production, estimated at $1.67 billion. Company owner and CEO Ron McCord – one of six defendants sued by warehouse provider CapLoc – said...
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