Finance

Ocwen Financial Corp. got back in the black during the first quarter after selling New Residential Investment Corp. $110 million in economic rights to mortgage servicing.

“We’re comforted by the fact our position in the market is so strong, and our ability to gain [loan] allocation is quite important," co-CEO Kewsong Lee says.

Banyan Street Capital and Balandis Real Estate are tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance the revitalization of a mixed-use development in downtown Atlanta.

Qualifying borrowers have their maximum monthly payment reduced to 15% of the total of the household income, but the maximum dollar amount that can be extended is capped at $4 million.

If Freddie Mac's credit-risk transfer activities continue to grow, mortgage lenders could eventually see a reduction in the guarantee fees they pay to the government-sponsored enterprise, according to CEO Donald Layton.

The €300 million Taurus 2018-1 also finances Italian retail assets that the Partners Group, based in Switzerland, purchased from the Blackstone Group in February.

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (formerly Hunton & Williams and Andrews Kurth Kenyon) has named Robert A. Davis Jr. as special counsel in its tax and ERISA practice.

Borrowers can get better rates elsewhere, so they're repaying ahead of schedule, leaving banks in the lurch. The steps lenders would have to take to keep the business could be prohibitively expensive.

The REIT obtained a $782.7 million mortgage from three banks; proceeds, along with $202 million of mezz loans and $33 million of cash, will be used to repay existing debt.

Record originations on "better-yielding" used-car loans helped drive a 14% increase in its first-quarter profit. But Ally's shares were down Thursday on concerns of rising deposit costs.

A consortium including GPP and TIAA has obtained a $500 million mortgage on a 672,581- square-foot portion of the 2.7-million-square foot Ala Moana Center in Honolulu.

RAC King (d/b/a American Car Center) has expanded rapidly since being acquired in a 2016 leveraged buyout; now it's bundling most of its portfolio into collateral for bonds.

The $826.6 million transaction, GPMT 2018-1, represents about two-fifths of the $2.4 billion portfolio of the REIT, which was spun out of Two Harbors Investment last year.

The seventh-largest loan (3.9% of the pool) is secured by 181 Fremont Street in San Francisco, has a credit opinion of BBB, reducing overall leverage in the $766 million conduit.

Angel Oak Commercial Lending provide both short- and long-term financing for projects in multifamily, industrial, mixed use, retail, office, self-storage and other sectors.

The real estate investment trust is issuing $450 million of five-year notes backed by rights to excess servicing strips of Fannie Mae loans.

The Tennessee community bank garnered a triple-A from two credit rating agencies for its inaugural securitization this month of loans refinancing the debt of borrowers with advanced degrees and high-paying jobs.

The $185 million transaction features a higher exposure to borrowers entering bankruptcy than the sponsor's 2016 deal; it's also more seasoned, since it recycles 2014 collateral.

The 860 loans backing its latest transaction, the $258.4 million Verus Securitization Trust, 2018-INV1, are all "business purpose investor loans,” according to S&P.

A large portion of the collateral for the $1.06 billion IH-2018-SFR1 is being rolled over from two transactions originally issued in 2015.