Securitization

Questions remain around switching benchmarks that could result in unexpected refinancings

The agency eased rules regarding delinquency thresholds and reporting regulations through the end of June 2023.

The credit card issuer Synchrony Financial recently used FICO’s top competitor in a $1 billion deal. The choice is significant for VantageScore, but FICO remains the dominant credit score in the securitization market, according to analysts.

The Treasuries market is girding for potential disruptions from the next and trickiest stage of policymakers’ tightening campaign: the shrinking of an $8.5 trillion bond portfolio.

Purchasing mortgage-backed securities—and that strategy is not out of the question as the central bank works to promote equilibrium in the housing markets over time.

Home price values of the underlying pool are more than 10% above a long-term sustainable level. The sustainable level from a national point of view is 9.2%.

Real-estate owned assets sold in 2021 achieved 109% of the most recent appraised value, on average, compared with the 97% that the sales achieved, in 2020.

Together, the deals OBX programs will issue about $850.5 million in prime jumbo and non-prime RMBS paper, and are expected to close on May 10.

Almost the entire deal will issue notes through a senior-subordinate capital structure repaying principal sequentially, instead of on a modified sequence.

With ADFITECH as a held company now, Mortgage Connect says it is well equipped to be a linear provider of credit, compliance and servicing review services.

New Residential, the REIT, boosts credit confidence in the deal as a sponsor and originator experienced with re-performing and seasoned cleanup calls.

Lenders financed the properties through first-lien, fixed-rate mortgage loans, most of which were on 30-year terms extended to prime borrowers, many self-employed.

Anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s balance-sheet reduction is weighing on bonds backed by mortgages, but the actual event may make them an attractive alternative to corporate debt.

Only about 1.0% of the mortgage assets in the collateral pool are for the respective borrowers’ personal use, and qualify as mortgages under Regulation Z.

Solar loans with balances of $5,000-$125,000, and Home Efficiency Loans, which have balances ranging from $1,000-$100,000, make up the bulk of the asset pool.

Secured by a single Morgan Stanley first-lien mortgage, the SFR is the largest deal since the program priced its $2 billion transaction in July 2021.

By property type, lodging assets led the way for total delinquencies, with 6.3%, while some 3.5% of the lodging pools were current and specially serviced.

Homes securing the portfolio produce an average monthly rent of $2,405, based on gross potential rent for vacant properties, and an average remaining lease term of eight months.

Securitization would have to see more cycles before the full effect of the COVID-19 pandemic becomes apparent, but loans backing multi-borrower SFRs show more sensitivity to rent collection disruptions.

Non-QM assets overlap almost perfectly with the portion of loans, 52%, financing properties where the borrower intends to maintain as a primary residence.