Securitization

Mortgage-bond investors will need to absorb about 26% more agency MBS supply in 2020 as both home sales and prices continue to climb, according to the average estimate of six of Wall Street's biggest dealers.

According to presale reports, Ohana Real Estate Investors is sponsoring a $370 million bond sale backed by an interest-only, floating-rate loan financing its purchase of the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif.

According to presale reports, Ohana Real Estate Investors is sponsoring a $370 million bond sale backed by an interest-only, floating-rate loan financing its purchase of the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif.

The latest deal, WFCM 2019-C54, involves 44 loans secured by 88 properties, with a heavy exposure to office (32%), multifamily (21.1%) and retail (17.9%) properties.

The latest deal, WFCM 2019-C54, involves 44 loans secured by 88 properties, with a heavy exposure to office (32%), multifamily (21.1%) and retail (17.9%) properties.

The outperformance of mortgage-backed securities versus U.S. Treasuries has extended for a third straight month into November, buoyed in part by a decline in volatility.

Developer Stephen Ross' firm is among a trio of sponsors securitizing part of a $1.245 billion loan for another office tower development in New York's Hudson Yards submarket.

The two deals continue a late-year surge of private-label RMBS deal volume totaling $8.37 billion priced since Oct. 1.

For the private-label mortgage-backed securities market to grow, regulators need to focus on collateral management in addition to changes to data disclosure rules.

Nationstar’s next securitization of defaulted or inactive home equity conversion mortgages will have a higher-than-average exposure to properties with steep leverage, as well as ties to judicial foreclosure states.