Investments

Five transactions in the past week provided cash infusions for tech companies that are developing products for real estate finance.

The 11-year-old company, which went public earlier this year, sold new junk-rated bonds on Tuesday to refinance debt and to pay its shareholders a $200 million special dividend, according to a copy of the debt documents

A PIMCO-sponsored HELOC securitzation, as well as a mortgage-insurance linked transaction, are the latest examples of issuers getting a head start on switching to an expected replacement benchmark for Libor.

Proptech CEOs and investors fully expect a huge year for the sector due to the pandemic’s “watershed” effect on digitization, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

Relying on retained earnings alone, it would be until at least 2036, if not longer, before government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae might end.

Mortgage brokers are telling the company that they "are looking for another large source," according to President and CEO Willie Newman.

Since CoStar made its revised offer in February, its stock price dropped nearly $177 per share.

The merger with Capitol Investment V values the title insurer at $3 billion.

Rocket Cos. fell premarket, halting a three-day rally driven by sentiment that the home-loan provider was the latest retail-trader favorite for its high short interest.

The $16.9 billion in issuance marked the biggest annual number seen since the government-sponsored enterprise reconstituted its risk sharing program in 2013.

As its mortgage origination volume delivered another quarter of strong earnings, Mr. Cooper’s banking on its "enormous backlog" of REO orders to generate further profitability once the foreclosure moratorium is lifted.

Bond bears appear to be having more than just a moment here at the start of 2021, with Treasury yields finally busting out of long-held ranges to levels last seen in the early days of the pandemic.

Just because the Fed is staying put doesn’t mean that mortgage rates, and prices of MBS, are staying put as well, writes Vice Capital Markets Principal Chris Bennett.

Today, the mortgage players who most actively hedged — Fannie and Freddie, real estate investment trusts and large bank servicers — have significantly reduced their need to to do so, analysts said.

After they reopened on Tuesday, Treasury 10-year yields rose four basis points to touch 1.25% — the highest since last March — while the 30-year equivalent pushed above 2%.

The best mortgage bonds to buy now may be the ones the Federal Reserve is purchasing, because the securities might benefit the most if macro optimism fades.

The offering went down to $14 from an anticipated $19 to $21 per share.

The agreement would generate $250 million in proceeds, which the nonbank mortgage company plans to use to pay down and refinance existing debt, while also investing in its servicing and origination businesses.

But the company sees reasons to be optimistic about the second half of the year, CEO and Chairman Michael Nierenberg said during its fourth quarter earnings call

The deal definitively ends a monthslong war of words between the data provider and stakeholders who attempted a hostile takeover.