Both Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigned ratings to residential mortgage-backed certificates totaling $478.34 million issued recently by Morgan Stanley Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2021-5 (MSRM 2021-5).
Fitch assigned the following expected ratings:
- Class A-1-IO, A-4-A, A-4A-IO, A-5-A, A-5A-IO, A-6, A-6-IO, A-9, and A-9-IO: AAA
- Class B-1: AA-
- Class B-2: A-
- Class B-3: BBB-
- Class B-4: BB-
- Class B-5: B
- Class B-6: Not rated
KBRA assigned the following preliminary ratings:
- Class A-1-IO, A-4-A, A-4A-IO, A-5-A, A-5A-IO, A-6, A-6-IO, A-9, and A-9-IO: AAA
- Class B-1: AA
- Class B-2: A
- Class B-3: BBB
- Class B-4: BB-
- Class B-5: B-
- Class B-6: Not rated
This is the eighth post-crisis transaction off the Morgan Stanley Residential Mortgage Loan Trust shelf; the first transaction was issued in 2014.
This is the sixth MSRM transaction that comprises loans from various sellers and acquired by Morgan Stanley in its prime-jumbo aggregation process. The certificates are supported by 495 prime-quality loans with a total balance of approximately $478.34 million, as of the Aug. 1, 2021, cutoff date.
The pool consists of 100% fixed-rate mortgages from various mortgage originators: MAXEX LLC (38%), Cross Country Mortgage (23.78%); Guaranteed Rate (18.51%), Quicken Loans (10.74%), and others (contributing less than 10%).
The servicer for this transaction is Specialized Loan Servicing LLC (SLS). Nationstar Mortgage LLC will be the master servicer. Of the loans, 100% qualify as safe-harbor qualified mortgage (SHQM). There are no high-priced QM loans or non-QM loans in the pool.
For more on Fitch's ratings, click here.
For more on KBRA's ratings, click here.
