Allison Bisbey

Colony American Finance is preparing its first securitization of loans to single-family landlords, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Fannie Mae has completed a credit risk sharing transaction that transfers the actual losses on mortgages it insures — to reinsurers.

Banks that want more explicit regulatory guidance on rules requiring managers to keep "skin in the game" with deals for collateralized loan obligations may be forced to keep waiting.

Policies that seek to increase homeownership by extending more credit to homeowners are misguided, according to former Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Edward DeMarco.

Colony Mortgage, a real estate investment trust that specializes in "transitional," or improving property, is preparing its third securitization, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Freddie Mac announced last week that it will guarantee its second series of SB Certificates, which are backed by multifamily small-balance loans underwritten by Freddie Mac and issued by a third-party trust.

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Freddie Mac has launched its first securitization of small-balance loans on multifamily properties. The 44 mortgages backing the $108 million of SB1 Certificates are underwritten by Freddie Mac and originated by Greystone Servicing Corp.

Freddie Mac has obtained two more reinsurance policies transferring risk of default on mortgages that it insures.

As negotiations between Greece and its official creditors drag on, more and more Greek homeowners are falling behind on their payments as well, according to Fitch Ratings.

Buyers of the unrated B tranche, which transfers the first 100 basis points of losses when homeowners default, will be paid a spread of 795 basis points over one-month Libor.

Freddie Mac is in the market with its fourth risk-sharing transaction of the year.

Fannie Mae is planning to follow the lead of its rival, Freddie Mac, and offer securities with exposure to actual losses on the single-family mortgages that it ensures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's warning that so called super-priority liens on houses do not come before Freddie Mac's bodes well for investors in the mortgage giant's latest risk-sharing transaction, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Freddie Mac's next STACR offering will offer investors exposure to actual losses on residential mortgages, something the mortgage giant says investors have been asking for.

Ocwen Financial's termination as servicer of two residential mortgage securitizations has no immediate impact on the strength of the company, but it does set a "negative precedent" that could eventually lead to the servicer being fired from more deals, Moody's Investors Service warns.

The first multiborrower single-family rental securitization is on its way, and it could be just the beginning.

Former Congressman Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, is not opposed to changes in the eponymous legislation, but in some cases he thinks the rules should be tightened, rather than loosened.

WinWater Home Mortgage is preparing another plain-vanilla private-label residential mortgage securitization.

Freddie Mac priced its first Structured Agency Credit Risk transaction of the year. The Series 2015-DN1 was upsized to $880 million from $775 million originally.