Tag Archives: Kroll Bond Ratings Agency

Privatizing the GSEs could potentially have an adverse effect on the mortgage market in the United States, according to Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

Industry reaction has been positive to the FHFA's move to raise the GSE conforming loan limits for the first time in a decade. But one analysis says the effect on mortgage lending may be minimal.

Non-prime mortgage origination programs that use securitization as a funding source are making a comeback, but they are not a simple rebranding of pre-crisis subprime loans, according to one analysis.

Banks were given in a "stable" rating in a mid-year outlook released this week. What were the deciding factors in the rating?

While U.S. economists debate how a set of troubles playing out overseas will affect the American mortgage market, Kroll Bond Rating Agency predicts that these troubles will probably not bring the refinancing volume some might think.

While the tests may have shown that the largest bank holding companies are capitalized enough to withstand the Fed’s hypothetical severely adverse economic scenarios, KBRA believes investors should beware.

While the single-borrower single-family rental securitizations in Kroll Bond Ratings Agency’s rated universe has seasoned only 10 months on the average, the properties that have securitized are appreciating in value.

In a recent analysis released by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), senior managing director Christopher Whalen predicts many metros around the country will see home price appreciation switch to a much slower track—or even decline modestly, in some cases—as the factors directing the momentum of the last few years diminish and fundamental drivers start playing a bigger role.