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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.

Originations from all sources, including commercial and reverse mortgages, total $9.2 billion.

Even government-sponsored enterprise loans, which have seen forbearance rates drop for 24 weeks in a row, saw a slight uptick.

President Trump is running out of time to do what hedge funds and other investment firms with big ownership stakes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have wanted since he took office: put the mortgage giants on a path to exiting government control.

Experts in the field predict how some aspects of the market will develop in the coming year.

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

The parties are looking at having the deal done by the end of 2020, once China's currency regulator agrees to the transfer of funds.

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 price increase illustrates the extent to which federal rescue programs and a supply-demand imbalance have been counterweights to economic pressures from the pandemic.

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