The Truth about Second Liens
Information about mortgage pools and portfolios, as currently reported, hides the impact of subsequent seconds from trading and modeling resources. In the overheated mortgage marketplace, HELOCs and other secondary liens have quietly increased portfolios’ overall loan-to-value (LTV) and combined loan-to-value (CLTV) ratios in recent years—effectively lowering their value—without such fundamental factual changes becoming visible to portfolio issuers, investors, or anyone else.
TrueSeconds enables originators, secondary marketers, issuers, investors and insurers to identify, evaluate, and monitor the impact of HELOCs and other second-mortgage liens on active first-mortgage pools and portfolios. It identifies and documents all types of second liens, including:
The growth of subordinate claims—driven by credit availability, gains in borrower sophistication, and a fiercely competitive environment—has dramatically increased overall risk in the current mortgage marketplace.
TrueSeconds combines the industry-leading information resources of LoanPerformance and First American CoreLogic, Inc., to enable users to discover the actual LTV/CLTV ratios of mortgage portfolios. Starting with user-supplied first mortgage data files, TrueSeconds searches the LoanPerformance, First American, and CoreLogic databases—then updates any affected files to include all additional liens recorded on the properties, with loan types, dates, and amounts.
TrueSeconds offers one-time, monthly, or quarterly monitoring of mortgage portfolios for originators, secondary markets, issuers, investors, and insurers. It can also provide rigorous daily monitoring—with automated alerts—for servicing and portfolio managers.
Getting up to speed is fast and painless—you provide first mortgage information:
TrueSeconds appends:
The resulting data enable your modeling and trading resources to deduce the actual current LTV/CLTV ratios of securities pools and portfolios—enabling you to make effective competitive decisions based on real collateral value.
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