RMBS

Nationstar’s next securitization of defaulted or inactive home equity conversion mortgages will have a higher-than-average exposure to properties with steep leverage, as well as ties to judicial foreclosure states.

Lenders have bundled more than $18 billion worth of non-QM, private-label loans into bonds this year that they then sold to investors, a 44% increase from 2018 and the most for any year since the securities became common post-crisis.

Sixty percent of the loans were underwritten with just 12- or 24-month bank statements, according to ratings agency reports.

The portfolio of residential mortgage-backed, pass-through securities within the upcoming deal, TORRENS 2019-2, is considered prime but will have to rely on a number of credit supports to counteract some weaknesses in the underlying loans.

Triton Trust No.8 is issuing approximately A$500 million in pass-through securities backed by prime residential mortgages in Australia, with a substantial amount of loans that are made to investors, 40.4%, according to an S&P Global presale report.

The loans underlying the $465 million securitization that OBX 2019-EXP3 Trust is launching will provide a test of the market’s willingness to accept concentration risk in a high-quality pool of mortgages.

First-lien, prime residential mortgages are securing the Visio 2019-2 Trust, which will raise $202,682,000 from the market, and which has collateral that was funded by the Mortgage Pass-Through Notes, Series 2019.

The PSMC 2019-3 Trust is bringing $298.6 million in notes to the market, backed by residential mortgages rounded up by subsidiaries of American International Group.

The $757.2 million Chase 2019-CL1 will be structured to sell notes that are tied to a reference pool of 979 residential mortgage loans – all of which will remain on JPMorgan’s books rather than being transferred to a trust.

The housing finance industry supports a proposed rule revision that would exempt banks regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from an RMBS disclosure requirement.