The bank’s fourth-quarter lending was flat, but it had record level originations for the year and expects volume to increase in 2022.

Strong home price appreciation helped push some GSE conforming jumbos into the non-agency market. Are loans for second homes next? (Includes data chart.)

Recent non-agency MBS include the year’s first expanded-credit MBS, plenty of prime deals and even a security with proprietary reverse mortgages.

UWM’s new jumbo promises its lowest interest rate yet, while Arc Home’s offer includes investment-property loans with balances of up to $2.0 million.

Mortgages in the transaction were acquired by Western Alliance Bank on a correspondent basis and will remain on its balance sheet. Risk-sharing deals in the non-agency market are rare and largely involve megabanks.

Prospects for non-agency MBS issuance in 2022 look mixed, with expanded-credit activity expected to increase while volume involving non-agency jumbos and GSE-eligible loans could decline.

Non-agency MBS issuers are off to a fast start this year, with four deals marketing this week. The MBS are backed by non-agency jumbos and GSE-eligible mortgages for investment properties.

The retail channel share of jumbo originations is coming back down to earth while the broker channel is receiving a boost thanks to United Wholesale Mortgage, among others. (Includes data chart.)

Issuers of prime non-agency MBS are increasingly removing loans subject to third-party due diligence reviews from the final MBS pools. Kroll Bond Rating Agency said the practice is a slippery slope.

With GSE loan limits in high-cost areas nearing $1 million in 2022, Redwood Trust called on the FHFA to use its powers to place limits on the GSEs’ acquisitions of high-balance mortgages.