Latin MBS issuance to continue rapid pace of growth

Structured finance in real estate is growing at 50% a year in Brazil and Mexico and at 20% a year in Argentina, according to rating agency Standard & Poor’s.

Euromoney Liquid real estate March 2007 

In Latin America during 2006, total mortgage-backed securitizations amounted to $2.9 billion (21% of domestic securitization volumes for the region) against $1.7 billion in 2005.

Structured finance, including MBS and securitizations of loans for residential or commercial property development, took off in Mexico in 2003. Real estate-related deals represented 47% of the total of $4.4 billion of securitizations in Mexico’s local market in 2006, according to Moody’s.

In Brazil, 8.2% of the total of $5.5

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