MBS

It's hard to overstate just how wild bond markets have gotten amid the coronavirus scare, forcing traders to rethink what's possible.

FirstKey Mortgage is sponsoring a rare pooling of manufactured housing loans in a $507.1 million securitization.

The properties have a combined broker-price opinion value of $530.7 million, which is a 27.4% increase for the properties in their original respective securitizations in 2015 and 2016.

Most of the pool is made up of office-property loans, but also includes a sizeable exposure to hotel and retail properties.

Ginnie Mae in 2020 is going to seriously examine what it would take to respond to a longstanding, priority request of its issuers.

As the hunt for yield intensifies, investors including Pacific Investment Management Co. see an attractive opportunity in mortgage bonds.

Banks' lowering of origination fees and loosening of underwriting standards often foreshadow a downturn.

The mortgage securitization market can expect some changes, particularly in the specified pool and to-be-announced markets, alongside a continuation of trends in other areas.

Trade associations representing mortgage lenders and securities market participants are asking the Federal Housing Finance Agency to rethink a plan to restrict pooling options for loans sold into uniform mortgage-backed securities.

High-grade corporate bonds bested mortgages by a wide margin in 2019 and are likely to outperform them again this year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.