Bankers, mortgage lenders and real estate brokerage firms are expected to win some relief soon from a provision of the qualified mortgage (QM) rule that restricts fees paid to affiliates.

The banks’ WFRBS 2014-C20 transaction is backed by 98 fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 142 properties.

New York regulator Benjamin Lawsky raised fresh concerns about potential "self-dealing" by Ocwen with affiliated businesses that critics say try to capture real estate commissions and charge additional fees to homebuyers.

The banks' JPMBB 2014-C19 CMBS conduit is backed by 61 commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 100 properties.

Wells Fargo is marketing a $449 million floating rate CMBS transaction backed by 25 loans.

Volkswagen is in the market with a $1 billion securitization of auto loan receivables – the issuer’s first of 2014.

Standard & Poor's believes Congress will renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (TRIPRA) but there is a risk that if scaled back enough, it would create credit and liquidity issues for CMBS, in the same way that letting the policy lapse would.

Vornado Realty Trust’s plan to spin off 81 strip shopping centers and four malls into a new publicly traded real estate investment trust won’t cause an “immediate credit fallout” for bonds exposed to these properties, said Barclays analysts in a report.

Some lenders in the subprime auto-loan space appear to be raising their underwriting standards, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The three straight week lull in CMBS issuance will be followed an active period that should boost issuance volumes closer to beginning of the year forecasts.

Standard & Poor’s has cut its forecast for the issuance of non-agency mortgage-backed securities this year by a steep 40%.

In some U.S. states, the lengthy and costly foreclosure timeline on loans in legacy, private-label mortgage bonds, has outweighed the benefits of home price gains.