Allison Bisbey

Home Partners of America is marketing its second securitization of single-family rental properties.

As the volume of maturing commercial mortgages has spiked, so has the number of loans transferred to special servicing when they fail to pay off.

The first commercial mortgage-backed security to comply with "skin in the game" requirements was extremely well received. Market participants credit the way the large banks sponsoring the deal retained the risk – a strategy unavailable to nonbank lenders.

Impending rules allow sponsors of commercial mortgage bonds to satisfy a requirement to keep "skin in the game" of their deals by selling the risk of first loss to a designated third party.

Two Harbors, which last week announced it was getting out of the private-label mortgage securitization business, is marketing one last deal.

Ocwen Financial Corp. is marketing $500 million of notes backed by reimbursement rights to funds it has advanced on residential mortgages that it services.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages ticked higher again in July, for the same reason they did in June: a number of large loans fail to pay off at maturity.

The Federal Housing Administration is promoting a particular kind of financing for residential energy retrofits that another regulator staunchly opposes. Mortgage lenders and investors have qualms, too, about the impact on their standing in collateral claims.

Two Harbors Investment Corp., one of the few regular sponsors of private-label mortgage securitization post-financial crisis, is pulling out of the market.

Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase have found a home for the another portion of a $558 million mortgage on a San Francisco shopping mall that serves as collateral for a single-asset CMBS launched this week.

Fannie Mae has priced its Connecticut Avenue Securities, the series 2016-C04, at tighter spreads to its previous deal, completed in April.

The Federal Housing Administration released lender guidance spelling out the circumstances under which it will insure mortgages on properties encumbered by Property Assessed Clean Energy liens similar to tax assessments.

Think the $1.9 billion "house" mortgage securitization that JPMorgan completed in April was big?

When Congress lifted the conforming loan limit in certain high-cost housing markets, it provided some much-needed liquidity for homebuyers.

Progress Residential is refinancing its first securitization of single-family rental properties.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages moved noticeably higher in June, as several large loans failed to pay off at maturity.

New rules designed to stop U.S. companies from moving their tax addresses offshore are written so broadly that they could disrupt the mortgage securitization market, the Structured Finance Industry Group warned Thursday.

Freddie Mac has obtained another three new insurance policies under its Agency Credit Insurance Structure program, representing the largest aggregate transaction to date.

There's been plenty of speculation about insurance companies crowding out commercial mortgage bond investors this year.

JPMorgan Chase's next residential mortgage securitization looks a lot like the six deals it completed in 2015: it is backed by jumbo loans to high-quality borrowers that the bank acquired from other originators.