- CEO
- Craig L. Knutson
- Full Time Employees
- 307
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Industry
- REIT - Mortgage
- Address
- One Vanderbilt Avenue New York City NY United States of America 10017
- IPO Date
- Apr 10, 2013
- Business
- MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA) operates as a specialty finance company and real estate investment trust that invests in residential mortgage assets, including non-qualified mortgage (Non-QM) loans, residential whole loans such as business purpose loans, legacy re-performing and non-performing loans, residential mortgage-backed securities comprising agency and non-agency classes and credit risk transfer securities, and mortgage servicing rights-related assets including term notes backed by servicing rights; through its wholly owned subsidiary Lima One Capital, the company originates and services business purpose loans for real estate investors. Founded in 1997 and headquartered at One Vanderbilt Avenue in New York, New York, MFA targets shareholder value through distributable income generation linked to residential mortgage credit fundamentals, with operations focused on the United States mortgage REIT sector. In recent developments, MFA completed its 20th Non-QM loan securitization, MFA 2025-NQM4, in 2025 bringing cumulative issuance volume to $7.3 billion and expanding its Non-QM portfolio beyond $5 billion with Q3 2025 acquisitions of $452.8 million; the company grew its overall residential investment portfolio to $11.2 billion, added agency MBS holdings, executed two additional securitizations collateralized by $721.5 million in Non-QM loans increasing total securitized debt to $6.4 billion, and Lima One increased origination volume by 20% to $260 million including new transitional loans.