Donna M. Mitchell is a financial journalist based in the New York metro area with expertise covering structured finance, commercial real estate, and wealth management. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Next Avenue, Financial Planning and National Real Estate Investor.
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Relatively tight pricing is expected on Citigroup Mortgage Trust 2021-INV2, although the coupons are expected to range from 0.49% to 3.0%.
August 13 -
The collateral is made up of private consolidation loans and private student loans that Wells Fargo, another initial note purchaser, had originated.
August 12 -
A pool of high-quality mortgages is securing Flagstar 2021-7. None of the loans had been subject to a coronavirus-related forbearance plan by the cutoff date.
August 11 -
Just a handful of loans in the securitized pool of investor properties, or 0.7%, had been enrolled in a coronavirus related forbearance plan.
August 10 -
Ten classes of multifamily mortgage pass-through certificates will be issued from the trust, which is secured by 29 loans on 29 properties.
August 9 -
Affirm Asset Securitization Trust 2021-B, is the company’s sixth rated term ABS. Observers expect to see more point-of-sale consumer loan asset ABS.
August 6 -
Despite the auto sector's resilience in recent economic quarters amid the pandemic, observers remain watchful of employment trends and waning government help.
August 6 -
For the current transaction, excess spread is at about 5.65% annually, which is in line with the 5.8% in the 2021-NR series of notes.
August 5 -
Used autos are in high demand, because the COVID-19 pandemic caused production delays that constrained the supply of new vehicles to the market.
August 4 -
After its founding in February 2012, the company has come to market 25 previous times for capital to support its business.
August 3 -
While the underlying pool of student loans is mixed, 96% of them are non-rehabilitated loans.
August 2 -
World Omni Auto Receivables Trust continues to focus solely on Toyota models, and has the potential to issue up to $1.1 billion in notes.
July 30 -
DriveTime extends financing to borrowers who have subprime credit profiles, generally with limited credit histories, modest incomes or prior credit difficulties.
July 29 -
Borrowers in the deal have a weighted average (WA) credit score of 722, have a DSCR of 1.39x and a weighted average loan-to-value (LTV) 71.7%.
July 29 -
Starting out as a consumer lender in 2012, Plenti began to make auto loans through its proprietary platform in 2017 and also offers peer-to-peer lending access.
July 28 -
The trust scales back on its office concentration, and increases multifamily and retail exposure. The latter's concentration is higher than all YTD averages since 2019.
July 27 -
Expanded prime and non-prime mortgages underpin the pool in the deal, issuing $459.8 million in notes.
July 26 -
Similar to other CLOs, Golub 54 has a reinvestment period of four years, with a two-year non-callable period.
July 23 -
Toyota had granted payment deferrals up to 120 days to eligible borrowers during the pandemic, and then resumed old deferral practices as of June 30, 2020.
July 22 -
The 10 largest loans in the deal have high balances, ranging from $2 million to $2.9 million, and California represents half of it’s geographic concentration.
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