Redwood’s jumbo acquisition volume declined by more than 40% in the second quarter and the REIT took a loss on its residential activities. Officials at Redwood said the company is well-positioned moving forward.

Annaly is seeing strong returns from its aggregation and sales of non-agency mortgages even with weak demand in the secondary market. The REIT boosted its non-agency MBS issuance with plans for further growth.

After a nearly 30-day lull, MBS with prime jumbos hit the market. An offering from Chase was significantly smaller than the issuance from the firm in the past. A number of expanded-credit MBS are also on offer.

Western Asset Management Company considering a sale of its non-agency REIT; Velocity offers another small-balance commercial MBS; PennyMac ramping up jumbo originations.

First Republic increased its originations for the second consecutive quarter thanks to a focus on jumbos. The bank puts an emphasis on customer service and benefits from having a portfolio to hold mortgages.

Since December, interest rates have increased on both non-agency jumbos and conventional-conforming mortgages. But rates have increased by a lower amount on jumbos thanks to demand for the loans at banks.

Western Alliance Bank sold first-loss exposure on a pool of mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of $3.88 billion. The mortgages were acquired from various correspondent sellers and include many non-agency jumbos.

Lagging data aggregated from counties provides some new insight into trends in jumbo originations in the first quarter of 2022.

Redwood released a report with various ESG disclosures, addressing certain topics set by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.

No channel was immune to the downturn in jumbo originations in the first quarter of 2022, but the retail channel suffered the least. There were also wide variations at the lender level in originations trends. (Includes data chart.)