Nomura is set to enter the market with a deal backed by non-agency mortgages for investment properties while two other issuers also have deals with newer non-QMs. There’s also a rare non-agency MBS with jumbo reverse mortgages.

Non-QM impairment rate declines in April; non-agency forbearance update; Laurie Goodman appointed chair of MFA Financial’s board; White Mountain Capital boosting loan acquisitions; Synergy One offering HELOC with blockchain tech; capital raises and new financing for financing providers that allow homebuyers to make cash offers; Canopy approved by DBRS as due diligence provider.

Data center securitizations issued in recent years carry elevated leverage that is inconsistent with the A rating they received from rating services other than Fitch.

Two securitizations brought to the market in May were stocked with recently originated non-qualified mortgages as issuers continue to plow their way through the remainder of the pandemic.

Fannie and Freddie have provided lenders with some flexibilities on construction-related loans. Also, they will pause acquisitions of refinances of mortgages with high loan-to-value ratios.

Roughly one-third of mortgages have seasoned for more than two years and were called from previously issued MBS.

The top three servicers of non-agency MBS issued during the first quarter of 2021 handled nearly 70% of the market. Shellpoint, the top-ranked firm, alone had a 41% share.

MBA is dead set against IMBs being forced to adhere to CRA laws...

Not since the go-go days of the mid 2000s has a national subprime REIT pulled off an IPO. If Angel Oak’s offering goes well, might the floodgates open? Wall Street can only hope.