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In Q1/2007, S&P/Case-Shiller house price index records first year-over-year decline in nationwide house prices since 1991. [126] The subprime mortgage industry collapses, and a surge of foreclosure activity (twice as bad as 2006) [ 127 ] and rising interest rates threaten to depress prices further as problems in the subprime markets spread to ...
Just as this article describes a bond as a 30-year bond with 6% coupon rate, this article describes a pass-through MBS as a $3 billion pass-through with 6% pass-through rate, a 6.5% WAC, and 340-month WAM. The pass-through rate is different from the WAC; it is the rate that the investor would receive if he/she held this pass-through MBS, and ...
The standard model (also called "100% PSA") works as follows: Starting with an annualized prepayment rate of 0.2% in month 1, the rate increases by 0.2% each month, until it reaches 6% in month 30. From the 30th month onward, the model assumes an annualized prepayment rate of 6% of the remaining balance. [ 2 ]
The current average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 7.00% for purchase and 7.04% for refinance — down 3 basis points from 7.03% for purchase and 3 basis points from 7.07% for refinance ...
Subprime I was smaller in size — in the mid-1990s $30 billion of mortgages constituted "a big year" for subprime lending, by 2005 there were $625 billion in subprime mortgage loans, $507 billion of which were in mortgage backed securities — and was essentially "really high rates for borrowers with bad credit".
For an MBS, the word "option" in option-adjusted spread relates primarily to the right of property owners, whose mortgages back the security, to prepay the mortgage amount. Since mortgage borrowers will tend to exercise this right when it is favourable for them and unfavourable for the bond-holder, buying an MBS implicitly involves selling an ...
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A friend referred to her toddlers as anchors: cute, squishy anchors, but anchors nonetheless. The same could be said of our pets — furry, feathered, and finned. We love them dearly and can’t ...