Bayview Asset Management and Verus Mortgage Capital separately started marketing non-agency MBS in the days after Hurricane Ian made landfall. Rating services that assessed the deals differed in their focus on potential damage from the hurricane.
Fitch’s review of 225 non-agency MBS prompts downgrade of a single tranche; Unison issues securitization with residential equity agreements; Carrington offers to complete certain non-QM origination tasks for brokers.
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.
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.
CoreVest issued a securitization involving bridge loans for residential properties; a prime non-agency MBS issued by JPMorgan Chase in 2018 is on watch for a downgrade.
Non-agency forbearance increases; personnel moves at Deephaven, Wells Fargo and Quontic; new non-agency MBS; a jumbo mortgage symposium; PCMA loosens standards for jumbo product.
Citadel rebrands as Acra Lending; minimal non-agency MBS downgrades following review by Fitch; non-QM impairments decline; non-agency forbearance down slightly.