Mortgage rates reached their lowest level this week since Freddie Mac began its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in 1971, but they might not have yet gotten to their floor.
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Delinquencies have been ticking up since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and Capital One is warning of more pain unless the government provides additional relief to tenants and landlords.
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The coronavirus impact in the U.,S. alone has resulted in a 30% year-over-year decline across securitizations, CLOs and MBS.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have imposed heavy price adjustments for loans that were granted relief under the pandemic relief law enacted in March.
July 22 -
Mortgage applications increased 4.1% from one week earlier as consumers continued to pursue both purchases and refinancings even as conforming rates rose from their record lows, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
July 22 -
The $975 million transaction will pay down existing notes from prior ABS offerings, as well as prepay certain debt for Jimmy John's, another affiliate of Arby's operator Inspire Brands.
July 21
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Moody's says anchor stores like J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus represent only a small portion of CMBS retail exposure, but their deteriorating fortunes will hasten the decline in credit quality of CMBS-held loans backed by Class "B" and "C" malls.
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The measures currently ensuring mortgage companies have sufficient cash to cover advances aren't necessarily sustainable, warns Ted Tozer, a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and a former government official.
July 21 -
The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance dropped for the fifth straight week, as the growth rate plummeted 38 basis points between July 6 and July 12, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency will extend the same GSE benchmarks of the past three years into 2021.
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One of the risk factors was lower expected values that Moody's and S&P applied for vehicles at the end of the contract period, in comparison to prior Ford vehicle-lease securitizations.
July 20 -
Issuers approved for the program will receive written authority to use "digital collateral" for a limited number of securitizations.
July 20 -
Mortgages taken out to fund business operations can now be modified in bankruptcy. That’s a relief to borrowers — particularly with business failures expected to increase as the pandemic drags on — but a possible headache for banks and investors that hold the loans.
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