**Exhibit 34.4**

**Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm**

TheBoard of Directors 

Citibank, N.A.: 

We have examined management’sassertion, included in the accompanying Management’s Assertion of Compliance, that the Agency and Trust division of Citibank, N.A. (the “Company”) complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the Securities andExchange Commission’s Regulation AB (the Servicing Criteria) except for Servicing Criteria 1122(d)(1)(iii)-1122(d)(1)(iv), 1122(d)(2)(iii),1122(d)(4)(i)-1122(d)(4)(ii) and 1122(d)(4)(iv)-1122(d)(4)(xiv), which the Company has determined are not applicable to the activities it performs with respect to thePlatform, as of and for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018, for publicly-issued (*i.e.*, transaction-level reporting initially required under theSecurities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and certain privately-issued (*i.e.,* for which transaction-level reporting is required pursuant to contractualobligation) residential mortgage-backed securities issued on or after January 1, 2006 for which the Company provides the following servicing functions: paying agent, securities administration and trustee;or securities administration and paying agent; or paying agent and trustee; or paying agent (the “Platform”), as listed in Appendix A of the accompanying Management’s Assertion of Compliance. The Platform also includes transactionsfor which the Company is not a party to the transaction agreements, but for which securities administration servicing functions have been outsourced to the Company by a party to the transaction agreements as listed in Appendix B of the accompanyingManagement’s Assertion of Compliance. The Company has determined that Servicing Criterion 1122(d)(1)(v) is applicable only to the activities the Company performs related to the mathematically accurate aggregation of information received fromservicers and the accurate conveyance of such information within reports to investors. Servicing Criterion 1122(d)(4)(iii) is applicable to the activities the Company performs with respect to the Platform only as it relates to the Company’sobligation to report additions, removals or substitutions on reports to investors in accordance with the transaction agreements. With respect to Servicing Criterion 1122(d)(1)(ii) there were no activities performed during the twelve months endedDecember 31, 2018 with respect to the Platform, because there were no occurrences of events that would require the Company to perform such activities. With respect to the transactions listed in Appendix B of the accompanying Management’sAssertion of Compliance, the Company is asserting to compliance with Servicing Criteria 1122(d)(1)(v), 1122(d)(3)(i)(A), 1122(d)(3)(i)(B) and 1122(d)(3)(i)(D), as well as 1122(d)(3)(ii), but only as it relates to the allocation of amounts due toinvestors in accordance with the distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion onmanagement’s assertion about the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria based on our examination. 

Our examination was conducted in accordancewith the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to obtain reasonable assurance and, accordingly,included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing selectedasset-backed transactions and securities that comprise the Platform, testing selected servicing activities related to the Platform, and determining whether the Company processed those selected transactions and performed those selected activities incompliance with the Servicing Criteria. Furthermore, our procedures were limited to the selected transactions and servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report. Our procedures were not designed to determinewhether errors may have occurred either prior to or 

subsequent to our tests that may have affected the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report for the selected transactions or any othertransactions. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria. 

In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned Servicing Criteria as of and for the twelve months ended December 31,2018 is fairly stated, in all material respects. 

 

/s/KPMG LLP 

Chicago, Illinois 

February 28, 2019