Securitization

The REIT issued its second securitization of the year in June, while also purchasing or locking $50 million in newly originated loans.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sales from the portfolios of failed Silicon Valley Bank and Signature could be complete by September, according to a report published Tuesday by FHN Financial.

Compared with other tax lien transactions, PVOne 2023-1 has a much smaller initial redemption value, and has one of the lowest numbers of liens, at 9,681. Its weighted average loan-to-value (LTV) ratio is 8.8%.

For large banks, the agencies wanted to go above the global standards for residential mortgages, as well as some business loans, to avoid giving those lenders a competitive advantage over smaller peers, according to another person familiar with the proposal.

Delinquencies are balanced by low loan-to-value ratios, which could result in more favorable recoveries in the event of defaults.

A vast majority of the pool, 86.35%, consists of primary homes. Investment properties and secondary homes, meanwhile, account for 11.29% and 2.36% of the collateral.

The properties have a purchase price of $684.8 million, and an issuer cost basis of $744.4 million, a debt yield of 7.0%, and a debt service coverage ratio of 1.44x.

Notes will be repaid through a modified sequential structure, which calls for the A-1 and M-1 through M-3 classes to receive principal on a pro-rata basis.

The marketplace has a large appetite to acquire risk-adjusted rental product. Investors see tailwinds leading to a revitalization of SFR capital markets by yearend.

Among the nonperforming assets 44.01% are either in foreclosure or referred for foreclosure; 19.32% are in default; 7.17% are liquidated and 1.75% are in bankruptcy.

New loan acquisitions fell to their lowest level since 2020, but companies also grew shares of residential securities noticeably over the past three years, S&P Global Market Intelligence said.

An 18-month transition period will end on July 31 for adoption of the Single Family Pool Delivery Module.

The investor segment will have to be mindful as it gains ground, executives said Tuesday, noting that the sector takes experience, skill and savvy awareness of risks.

Home price overvaluations over 10% are easing in some markets, analysts say, but RMBS investors are still cautiously tightening liquidity amid uncertainty.

After a selloff toward the end of 2022 when it sought to reduce liquidity risk, the company resumed purchases of whole loans last quarter.

In an earnings call, the company said talks with depository institutions were already underway regarding potential residential loan sales.

The transaction is the second of its kind in the past six months and comes as the mortgage leaders take steps to develop document standardization that would ease electronic closings and trading of the home equity loans.

The asset manager on Tuesday is set to begin a monthslong process to help the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. offload $114 billion of assets it picked up from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. 

Despite dearth of new loans, retail investors' exit from loan funds provides CLOs with new-issue supply.

Truist Financial Corp. plans to stop sales and trading of mortgage-backed securities and government-agency and Small Business Administration bonds by January.