Finance

A nearly $1.9 billion commercial mortgage bond linked to a portfolio of office buildings owned by Columbia Property Trust Inc. and Allianz SE was delayed on Wednesday due to market weakness, according to two bond investors.

A&D Mortgage originated a vast majority of the pool, 96.7%, and the company plays a number of other roles on the film, such as servicer and provider of the R&W.

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The transaction highlights the importance of giving the government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie access to a range of risk-sharing alternatives at a time when market volatility reportedly delayed another type of deal.

The company had its best fourth quarter ever for loan production, with purchases making up nearly 45% of that.

Optimal Blue researchers found correlations of 75% or more when looking at numbers of different loan-size cohorts, but the percentages came in lower when state data was analyzed.

The record amount is largely a reflection of the two banner years the mortgage market recently enjoyed, but it’s also one of the smallest gains seen in recent years.

But the company turned its first full-year profit since 2013.

Fannie Mae delayed a scheduled residential mortgage bond on Thursday due to market volatility spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

With an Q4 earnings report that showed declining revenues, Jay Farner called out lenders who reduce pricing and threw shade at certain unnamed lenders who fire employees via video call.

These companies benefited from the strong refinance market in 2021, but are facing a different environment with fewer mortgage originations expected this year.

The company has been working to improve its bottom-line results by aggressively cutting expenses and repositioning its servicing operation to maximize its profitability, according to CEO Willie Newman.

The move confirms speculation that the Federal Housing Finance Agency would return to a pre-pandemic plan to tighten requirements for mortgage lenders and servicers that work with two government-sponsored enterprises.

“This puts the performance of inflation solidly back into the limelight” with the “risk that higher prices with the backdrop of heightened geopolitical uncertainty will ultimately be stagflationary.”

Athas Capital Group originated the mortgages, which have an average balance of $408,350, and an average weighted average (WA) original term of 362 months.

CDFI-originated loans are not required to comply with the Ability to Repay (ATR) rules, but the mortgages included were generally made to creditworthy borrowers.

Raising rates and running down the balance sheet “will bring down inflation over time," she said.

The 2022 origination outlook was dropped by $172 billion and for 2023, economists at the government-sponsored enterprise made a $226 billion reduction.

Despite a slowing in the private-label securitization market in January, lenders and investors are expecting a strong year for outside-the-box originations and their secondary market sales.

The portfolio is one of several particularly large, recent deals related to the cash-flows from mortgage payments, but it has an unusual composition.