
KBRA has assigned preliminary ratings to six classes of mortgage-backed notes from New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2024-NQM1 (NRMLT 2024-NQM1), a non-prime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transaction valued at $281.9 million. The transaction is sponsored by Rithm Capital Corp., formerly known as New Residential Investment Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RITM.
The underlying mortgages in NRMLT 2024-NQM1 were originated by three main entities: NewRez LLC (57.6% of the pool), American Heritage Lending (20.3%), and LendSure Mortgage Corporation (11.3%). NewRez LLC, doing business as Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, will service all the loans in the pool.
NRMLT 2024-NQM1 is collateralized by a pool of 610 residential mortgages. Borrowers in this pool have a weighted average (WA) original credit score of 739 and a WA original loan-to-value (LTV) and combined LTV (CLTV) of 73.6%. The loans in the pool have been seasoned for approximately five months and consist primarily of fixed-rate mortgages (98.9%), with a small portion being adjustable-rate mortgages (1.1%). Additionally, about 8.4% of the pool features an initial interest-only period.
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