Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000930236-25-000007
Chunk: 174

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 174
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 to continue to regularly engage in these types of securitization transactions. Additionally, since 2022 we have co-sponsored two securitizations of HEI, began originating HEI and have purchased HEI from third parties with the expectation that we would continue to aggregate HEI for future securitization. A prolonged disruption of these securitization markets may adversely affect our earnings, growth, and liquidity. Even if regular residential consumer and residential investor mortgage loan securitization activity continues among market participants other than government-sponsored entities, we do not know if it will continue to be on terms and conditions that will permit us to participate or be favorable to us. And even if conditions are favorable to us, we may not be able to achieve and sustain the volume of securitization activity we previously conducted. Additionally, securities collateralized by residential investor loans, such as those issued by CoreVest under the CAFL® label, make up a small portion of the total market-wide volume of mortgage-backed securities issued, and the market for securities collateralized by HEI has only recently come into existence. The markets for such securities are not as mature as the market for residential mortgage-backed securities and dislocations in these markets or a change in the risk tolerance of investors or the perception of risk related to residential investor mortgage-backed securities or HEI-backed securities may negatively impact our ability to grow or sustain the volume of residential investor mortgage-backed or HEI-backed securitization transactions we engage in, which may result in our business and financial results being adversely affected.

We have also historically depended on the sale of whole loans as a channel for distributing loans and as an alternative to engaging in securitization transactions. However, for reasons similar to those described above with respect to securitization, market conditions have at times limited our whole loan sale activity in recent years. A prolonged disruption of the market for whole loans may adversely affect our earnings, growth, and liquidity. Even if regular residential consumer and residential investor whole loan purchase and sale activity continues among market participants, we do not know if such transaction activity will continue to be on terms and conditions that will permit us to participate or be favorable to us. And even if conditions are favorable to us, we may not be able to achieve and sustain the volume of whole loan sale activity we previously conducted. We may also pursue joint ventures or initiatives to form investment vehicles or funds with third-party investors to purchase loans, HEI, or other assets from us or from other sources, and to earn