MBS

The single-family, duplex and multi-unit condo properties have an average age of 60 years, more than double the age of other rated SFR securitizations.

The transaction involving 345 high-balance mortgages is just the third sponsored by Morgan Stanley's mortgage acquisition and trading arm since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

Other portions of the casino-property loan have been previously assigned to nine other commercial-mortgage securitizations.

Citigroup's realty arm is sponsoring a $1.06 billion RMBS of highly seasoned mortgage loans with troubled histories. All of the loans were acquired via a Fannie whole-loan auction.

The insurance company has previously sponsored three securitizations of reperforming/nonperforming loans since 2017.

Freddie Mac representatives would not comment on the sudden resignation of Brickman. Interim CEO Michael Hutchins has served as Freddie’s executive vice president of investments and capital markets since January 2015.

The sector’s leaders are hoping for better in 2021, while not forgetting lessons learned about the market’s risks in 2020.

FHA volumes, a key contributor to Ginnie Mae issuance, could fall as long as the refinancing boom continues — unless the FHA takes a step that could reverse that trend.

How we resolve millions of delinquent mortgages due to COVID is the only question that matters.

Four tranches of AAA-rated notes in the $342.2 million JPMorgan Mortgage Trust 2020-8 may utilize a term-SOFR rate should the benchmark improve on the weighted-average coupon of the deal.