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Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Dec. 4-10

Whether Ginnie issuance increases in the future may depend in part on the extent to which the Biden administration wishes to tap the FHA to promote affordable housing and homeownership.

HomeEquity will sell an as-yet undetermined volume of notes to finance forthcoming originations by the bank sponsored by Birch Hill Equity Partners Management.

The more-than-$550 billion market for bonds backed by U.S. commercial mortgages may face losses even after promising Covid-19 vaccines become widespread, as key parts of the real estate market may not return to full strength anytime soon.

The single-family, duplex and multi-unit condo properties have an average age of 60 years, more than double the age of other rated SFR securitizations.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Nov. 28-Dec. 3

The transaction involving 345 high-balance mortgages is just the third sponsored by Morgan Stanley's mortgage acquisition and trading arm since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

Other portions of the casino-property loan have been previously assigned to nine other commercial-mortgage securitizations.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Nov. 20-27

Citigroup's realty arm is sponsoring a $1.06 billion RMBS of highly seasoned mortgage loans with troubled histories. All of the loans were acquired via a Fannie whole-loan auction.

The insurance company has previously sponsored three securitizations of reperforming/nonperforming loans since 2017.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of Nov. 6-12

Freddie Mac representatives would not comment on the sudden resignation of Brickman. Interim CEO Michael Hutchins has served as Freddie’s executive vice president of investments and capital markets since January 2015.

The sector’s leaders are hoping for better in 2021, while not forgetting lessons learned about the market’s risks in 2020.

FHA volumes, a key contributor to Ginnie Mae issuance, could fall as long as the refinancing boom continues — unless the FHA takes a step that could reverse that trend.

Signs of weakness are showing in commercial real estate where property values have begun falling. The report also said that hedge fund leverage has remained elevated and that life insurers are reaching debt levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis

The deal is among the largest Freddie Mac has on its fourth-quarter K-Deal platform issuance calendar.

While the overall rate fell in October, S&P noted a sharp rise in the proportion of loans overdue 60 days as many roll out of COVID-19 forbearance.

Rescuing malls will be unusually complicated because the properties have byzantine webs of financing that have only grown more elaborate with time.

How we resolve millions of delinquent mortgages due to COVID is the only question that matters.