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Kroll Bond Ratings Agency plans to rate the M1 and M2 notes of Freddie Mac's latest $966 million risk-share securitization, STACR 2014-DN2.

Companies that manage single-family rentals have their own trade group: the National Rental Home Council (NRHC).

With more young adults making large student loan payments instead of saving up for a down payment, combined with car payments and possibly credit card debt, the 43% DTI becomes a very difficult barrier for lenders working within the QM standards.

Colony American Homes hired Beth O’Brien to lead its single-family lending unit, Colony American Finance.

A growing number of borrowers are paying off their mortgage loans before their credit card debts, reversing a trend first seen in September 2008, according to a TransUnion study.

Housing shortages in U.S. energy boom towns have driven rents up to New York City levels; but don’t expect that to last too long, says Moody’s Investor’s Service.

Revisions to Solvency II, while more securitization friendly, still reduce the appeal of asset backed securities to European insurers, according to Standard & Poor’s.

American Residential Properties plans to raise $300 million in medium-term debt via a securitization of single family rental properties.

The bill released by Sens. Tim Johnson and Mike Crapo would create a reinsurance fund to recoup losses on securities, establish a common securitization platform for the secondary mortgage market and open access to the secondary market for smaller lenders through a cooperative.