He insisted that non-QM was a safe product that performed “very well” but conceded that liquidity was a concern. He expressed surprise at Sprout’s sudden closure but suggested that the company may have taken a risk by allegedly buying and holding loans that were submarket coupons. He told MPA: “We all knew that there was going to be adjustments to rates, but we didn’t realize it was going to be as rapid as it was.” “We’re finding that many of them cannot get small enough and scale fast enough to get ahead of the significant drop in business,” he said.įor his part, Jon Maddux, CEO and co-founder of non-QM specialist FundLoans, raised doubts the market would hit expected growth targets this year, saying “all non-QM had a setback in the overall loan volume”, due to the rapid rate increase that “came practically out of nowhere”. As we enter a new era of market instability, it’s clear that non-QM lenders will need to be even more nimble and adaptive to survive.”Īl Hensling, president and co-founder of United American Mortgage, said companies had become “too complacent” and failed to control their operational costs. They quickly shifted their focus to other products that were in demand and less risky, and they took steps to mitigate the impact of the turbulence on their business. “We also saw that the lenders who were able to weather the storm did so by being nimble and adaptive. “Not only did non-QM lenders get hit hardest by this turmoil, but many of them were forced to go out of business permanently, or temporarily halt lending on certain products. “We saw this in 2019 during the COVID pandemic,” he said. Yury Shraybman, broker at Innovative Mortgage Brokers in Philadelphia, said that in times of market instability, non-QM lenders were usually the first to feel the effects. If the money’s not there, shop gets closed.” This directly impacts the dreaded margin call. If they’re selling those notes to an investor, at a certain point they’ll stop buying them because the money isn’t moving.
Since the vast majority of these loans are held by the bank making the note (serviced in-house), at a certain point all the money dries up when none of the previous loans are getting paid off.
“Now she’s thrilled to have 5% and has no intention of getting out of that loan. She got 5% on the interest rate with the intent to refinance out of it as soon as she could show two years of solid tax returns. I did a non-QM loan for a lady in October that was buying a house. Non-QM, just like subprime loans, are meant to be a patch. He said: “One of the biggest issues with non-QM is liquidity. Kirk Tatom, president of Tatom Lending, said non-QM lenders faced specific issues not common to other lenders. Investors are less interested in buying a higher risk non-QM bond at a 5% coupon when they can buy an agency bond at 5% with materially less risk.” Phil Shoemaker, president of originations at wholesale lender Homepoint, said: “The speed at which rates increased has created material spread risk in the non-QM market, and companies that are highly engaged in non-QM lending are severely exposed. That’s because, unlike subprime, non-QM has lower LTV, a much higher FICO credit score and borrowers have to prove their ability to repay (ATR) through bank statements and tax returns. The cases have raised concerns that non-QM lenders are particularly at risk in the current economic climate, as rapid mortgage rate increases and spiraling inflation have not only made borrowing more expensive but heightened fears that the market has become more unpredictable and less stable, not least because of the escalating war in Ukraine.ĭespite this, non-QM lenders have been at pains to point out that the non-prime market is safe and highly regulated, and that their loans have nothing to do with the subprime products that caused the 2008 financial crash.
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In Sprout’s case, just days earlier it had declined to provide figures on its non-QM volume for 2022 when requested to by Mortgage Professional America (MPA). In response, former employees at First Guaranty, angry at the way they were dismissed, have now filed a class action lawsuit against the company.
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