CORE Insights: A Deep Dive into our Agency Credit Model and the Impact of COVID-19

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By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group This article takes a closer look at some key features of our updated Agency Credit Model within our CORE™ Model Suite. Also highlighted are unique behaviors that occurred during the COVID period. Framework Figure 1 shows the transition model framework used by the latest version of our… Read more »

Market Overview

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By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group Each issue of our Quarterly Perspectives consists of several articles covering different topics of interest to mortgage market participants. This article reviews 1) Mortgage Rates and Spreads, 2) Prepayment Changes from our MIMs Survey, and 3) Extension Risk Concerns. 30-Year Mortgage Rates and Spreads Figure 1 displays… Read more »

Market Overview

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By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group This Market Overview provides an overview of rates, prepayments, credit, housing markets, policy updates, and other topics of broad interest to mortgage market participants. Subsequent articles provide a deep dive into our CORE™ family of models, the MSR market, and the whole loan market. In this first… Read more »

Residential MSR Market Update – Q4 2021

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By Mike Carnes, Managing Director, MSR Valuations Group MSR Pricing MSR prices continued their upward climb in Q4 2021. As displayed in Figure 1, MIAC Generic Servicing Assets (hereafter, GSAs™) have seen YTD price increases across all sectors and vintages, with a UPB-weighted increase of 34.4%. Across Conventional products, pricing increased substantially more for 30-year… Read more »

Whole Loan Market Update – Q4 2021

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By Brendan Teeley, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets Group This article reviews recent developments and their impact on seasoned whole loan markets. MIAC regularly represents buyers and sellers across a broad range of market segments. In this article, we focus on the following: CRA, EBOs Fix-and-Flip, Puerto Rico, and Scratch and Dent. CRA – Community… Read more »

MIAC Perspectives – Winter 2022

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In this issue… Market Overview Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group This Market Overview provides an overview of rates, prepayments, credit, housing markets, policy updates, and other topics of broad interest to mortgage market participants. Topics include: Mortgage Rates and Spreads, Prepayment changes from our MIMs Survey, MIMs Contributor Dispersion, and Policy News. Read more…… Read more »

MIAC Perspectives – Fall 2021

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In this issue… Update on Market Rates and Prepayments Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group Year to date, primary rates have backed up 40 bps while secondary rates have increased 67 bps. This means that the primary/secondary spread narrowed by 26 bps. This primary/secondary (P/CC) spread is driven by numerous factors, including g-fees, servicing… Read more »

Update on Market Rates and Prepayments

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By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group MIAC’s quarterly Perspectives will cover themes such as housing markets, mortgage rates and spreads, rates and volatility markets, residential originations and securitizations, credit and prepayments. Mortgage Rates and Spreads Figure 1 displays a snapshot of primary and secondary 30-year conventional mortgage rates since the start of the… Read more »

Residential MSR Market Update – Q3 2021

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By Mike Carnes, Managing Director, MSR Valuations Group MSR Pricing YTD MIAC Generic Servicing Assets (GSAs™) have seen YTD price increases across all sectors, with a UPB-weighted increase of 30.7%. Across Conventional products, pricing increased substantially more for 30-year than for 15-year. This is due to (a) 30-year primary rates increasing by more than 15-year… Read more »