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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A majority of the deal was underwritten to a less-than-full documentation standard, but meets ATR standards. Almost half of the loans are on California homes.
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All but 501 of the loans in the pool were assessed following the new general QM rule. Otherwise, the pool is largely comprised of jumbo, prime loans.
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The underlying loans in the collateral pool is nearly sterling in quality, with full-documentation underwriting, and WA loan seasoning of 30-plus months.
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The deal appears to take advantage of a shift in federal rules reducing the level of non-owner-occupied loans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can purchase.
August 26 -
Hailing from Canada, the upcoming credit card deal will draw from a pool with very low rates of delinquency, total net losses and charge offs.
August 25 -
The proceeds from the trust’s certificates will refinance some CMBS debt, among other balance sheet uses.
August 24 -
The GS Mortgage-Backed trust consists of about 1,219 loans and plans to issue notes from a pool that has an aggregate principal balance of about $325.3 million.
August 23 -
The collateral mortgage were underwritten through the CFPB's ATR rules, and captures self-employed, prime and super prime borrowers, and even foreign nationals.
August 20 -
Facebook is leasing two buildings that offer 542,680 square feet of prime office space in the Spring district of Bellevue, Washington, now under redevelopment.
August 19 -
Virtually the whole collateral pool will be comprised of senior secured loans, cash and eligible investments ultimately benefiting software, hotel and leisure.
August 18 -
Henry Brigham, Willis Hwang and David Knecht bring a combined 43 years of corporate trust experience to the Wilmington Trust team.
August 17 -
Credit performance to LL ABS deals has been better than expected, as financial support to borrowers made exxtra cash available to pay down on other obligations.
August 16 -
In a first for the EART program, the collateral will include loans originated through a third-party direct lender.
August 16 -
Credit enhancement ranges from 24.7% on the most senior class of notes to 1.5% on the most subordinate class.
August 13 -
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.
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