Nora Colomer

Citigroup priced the senior most tranche of its latest commercial mortgage securitization, Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2015-GC29, just wide of the previous conduit to be sold, by Wells Fargo.

FirstKey Lending is securitizing $241 million of fixed-rate loans it made to landlords for the purchase of buy-to-rent, single-family homes, according to a presale from Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

Higher credit enhancement did not necessarily pay off for Wells Fargo in its latest commercial mortgage securitization.

The latest securitization of reperforming residential mortgages offers investors less protection against future losses than the previous deal, and has earned correspondingly lower safety scores from Fitch Ratings.

JPMorgan's follow-up RMBS to its first securitization of 2015 involves a much smaller pool of mortgages.

Wells Fargo priced $927 million of commercial mortgage securities via its Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Trust 2015-C27 series, according to a pricing document.

Wells Fargo is offering $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds via the WFCM 2015-C27 conduit, according to a Kroll Bond Rating Agency presale report.

Quicken Loans originated the largest share of mortgages backing the latest two prime, jumbo RMBS deals being marketed by Credit Suisse and WinWater Home Mortgage.

American Homes 4 Rent is pushing the maturity envelope with its latest single-family rental securitization.

Fannie Mae's first risk-share transaction of the year is for $1.5 billion.

Deutsche Bank has pooled 67 fixed-rate commercial mortgages, secured by 81 properties, in a $1.4 billion securitization called COMM 2015-DC1.

One of the most widely discussed ideas at ABS Vegas for boosting issuance of private-label residential mortgage securitization involves hiring a third party to monitor the quality of the collateral.

JPMorgan plans to add $940 million to the growing pipeline of residential mortgage-backed securities.

JPMorgan and Barclays plan to securitize 44 commercial mortgage loans that total $836.5 million. The loans are secured by 91 properties.

Progress Residential priced its second securitization of single-family rental properties.

Invitation Homes is sticking to the same large loan model of past single-family rental securitizations in its first deal of 2015.

CMBS issuance is set to resume as industry players returned to their desks following last week's annual industry shindig hosted by the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council in Miami.

The amount of commercial mortgage debt maturing is set to spike this year, when loans taken out during the height of the real estate bubble start coming due.

Ocwen Financial's settlement with New York regulators could have a negative impact on the cash flows of mortgage bonds heavily exposed to loans serviced by Ocwen in that state, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Fannie Mae veteran Karen Pallotta has joined Redwood Trust's board of directors. Pallotta's recent role at Fannie was as executive vice president of the single-family credit guaranty business, which she assumed during the height of the financial crisis.