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 »
MIAC Publications
Update on Market Rates and Prepayments
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
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 »
A Closer Look at the Impact of Loan Age on GNMA Prepayments in MIAC’s CORE™ Models
By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group As we’ve discussed in previous reports and documents, our CORE™ multi-factor prepayment model incorporates all of the explanatory variables displayed in Figure 1. We handle additional explanatory variables as over-rides to this base model. These expanded variables include FICO score, channel, loan purpose, occupancy, property type, and… Read more »
MIAC Perspectives – Summer 2021
In this issue… Residential MSR Market Update – July 2021 Mike Carnes, Managing Director, MSR Valuations Group Over the month of June, primary mortgage rates were mostly flat, while the CMS curve flattened significantly – with 2-year CMS rates backing up 10 BPs and 10-year CMS rates falling 15 BPs. During the same time period,… Read more »
A Closer Look at Liquidation Timelines in MIAC’s CORE™ Models
By Dick Kazarian, Managing Director, Borrower Analytics Group Introduction and summary In our Winter 2021 edition of MIAC Perspectives, we provided an overview of our updated CORE™ Residential Models for Credit, Prepayment, and Loss. We identified six major features which distinguish these CORE models from alternative models available in the analytics marketplace. In the latest… Read more »
Whole Loans: Mid-Year Market Update
By Brendan Teeley, Senior Vice President, Whole Loan Sales & Trading GNMA Early Buyouts (EBOs) EBO pricing is at record highs as APM 20-07 increases the burden on servicers and owners to re-pool their delinquent GNMA loans. The requirement of 6-month consecutive payments means that borrower must be current for effectively 7 consecutive months prior to… Read more »
GNMA RG Pools: Delivery, Pricing, and Performance
By Paul Raebel, Managing Director, MDS – Loan Sales and Delivery Delivery and Pricing Beginning on February 1st, 2021, Ginnie Mae instituted new requirements for how re-performing loans must be pooled. These new pools are referred to as C RG pools and consist entirely of loans that have been bought out of Ginnie Mae pools…. Read more »
Residential MSR Market Updated – July 2021
By Mike Carnes, Managing Director, MSR Valuations Group GSA Pricing: Month-Over-Month Over the month of June, primary mortgage rates were mostly flat, while the CMS curve flattened significantly – with 2-year CMS rates backing up 10 BPs and 10-year CMS rates falling 15 BPs. During the same period, the MIAC Generic Servicing Assets (GSAs™) saw… Read more »
MIAC Software Support Update
By Lisa Malie, Managing Director, Product Management and Support Felicia Reynolds, Managing Director, Product Management and Support Behind the Scenes MIAC Analytics offers a diverse range of products and services to a wide audience of clients. In turn, it takes a dedicated team of professionals to support, maintain and evolve these products and… Read more »