MOODY'S ASSIGNS DEFINITIVE RATINGS TO NOTES ISSUED BY PREFERRED RESIDENTIAL SECURITIES 06-1 PLC
Approximately GBP 437 Million of Debt Securities Affected
Paris, February 23, 2006 -- Moody's Investors Service has today assigned definitive long-term
credit ratings to the Notes to be issued by Preferred Residential Securities
06-1 PLC:
Aaa to the USD 125.0 million Class A1b Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2028;
Aaa to the GBP 57.1 million Class A1c Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2028;
Aaa to the Euro 70.0 million Class A2a Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Aaa to the USD 20.0 million Class A2b Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Aaa to the GBP 167.1 million Class A2c Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Aaa to the GBP Class A2c Detachable Coupons due 2009;
Aa2 to the Euro 5.5 million Class B1a Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Aa2 to the GBP 26.0 million Class B1c Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
A2 to the Euro 17.0 million Class C1a Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
A2 to the GBP 6.5 million Class C1c Mortgage Backed Floating Rate
Notes due 2043;
Baa2 to the Euro 15.1 million Class D1a Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Baa2 to the GBP 10.0 million Class D1c Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043;
Baa2 to the GBP 4.8 million Class DTc Mortgage Backed Floating
Rate Notes due 2043; and
Ba3 to the GBP 8.1 million Class E1c Mortgage Backed Floating Rate
Notes due 2043;
Moody's has not assigned ratings to the Class ETc and the Class FTc Notes.
The different currency denominations within each separate class of note
will rank pari-passu with each other in all respects.
Investors in the Class A2c Detachable Coupons ("DAC") do not receive any
payments of principal, and will be paid interest at a rate of 1.00%
for the quarters 1 to 4 increasing to 1.25% in quarter 5,
1.34% in quarter 6, 1.47% in quarters
7, 8 and 9, 1.49% in quarter 10, 1.61%
in quarter 11 and 1.69% in quarter 12, calculated
on the sterling equivalent of the outstanding balance of the Class A Notes.
This is the 11th RMBS-transaction of non-conforming,
mortgage loans originated by Preferred Mortgages Limited ("PML") and the
first one featuring "Near Prime" loans and second-ranking mortgages.
PML is the initial primary mortgage servicer and cash/bond administrator
for the transaction. Homeloan Management Ltd (SQ2), a wholly
owned subsidiary of Skipton Building Society (A3, Prime-1),
is the standby mortgage servicer and cash/bond administrator. Barclays
Bank Plc (Aa1, Prime-1) will be the liquidity facility and
GIC provider.
The transaction will incorporate at the closing date a cash reserve to
mitigate the reduced interest rate on discounted loans during the first
year. A fixed cash amount will be withdrawn from the Discounted
Margin Reserve Ledger on each of the first four Interest Payment Dates
(1st IPD GBP 2,296,988, 2nd IPD GBP 1,828,786,
3rd IPD GBP 1,319,226 and 4th IPD GBP 1,094,331)
and will flow through the revenue waterfall as available revenue.
As in the previous transaction, the DTc, ETc and FTc Notes,
are not backed by mortgage collateral but will be paid back by available
excess spread. Interest payments on the DTc Notes rank pari passu
with the D1 Notes and interest on the ETc Notes ranks pari passu with
the E1c Notes.
Principal on the DTc Notes will be paid from the Revenue Waterfall after
any top-up to the Reserve Fund, up to 60% of the closing
balance of the DTc Notes on the immediately preceding IPD, unless
this is less than or equal to 25% of the initial balance of the
DTc Notes in which case available revenue will be applied to pay down
the whole of the DTc Notes.
The principal of the ETc Notes will be paid down from available revenue
funds after any payments to the DTc Notes. The FTc Notes will receive
interest, then principal after the ETc Notes have been paid down
in full, all accrued interest will be recorded on the FTc ledger.
A beneficial feature is the cap agreement; approximately 23.9%
of the loans are initially set at a fixed rate for a period expiring on
or before March 2009. The Issuer will enter into interest rate
cap agreements to mitigate the potential variations between mortgage loan
LIBOR and the fixed rates in the pool. The cap agreement has a
strike rate of 4.86% during the period from the Issue Date
and ending on the Interest Payment Date falling in March 2009, with
a notional following the decreasing principal balance of fixed-rate
loans as they revert to floating rates, assuming no prepayments.
The ratings of the A Notes, the B Notes, the C Notes and the
D Notes are based upon an analysis of the characteristics of the mortgage
pool backing the Notes, the protection the Notes receive from credit
enhancement against defaults and arrears in the mortgage pool, and
the legal and structural integrity of the issue. An additional
level of protection to investors in the Notes (excluding the DTc,
ETc and FTc Notes) will be the Reserve Fund, which on closing will
equal GBP2,376,000 or 0.55% of the original
transaction size (excluding DTc, ETc and FTc Notes).
The ratings address the expected loss posed to investors by the legal
final maturity. In Moody's opinion, the structure allows
for the timely payment of interest and ultimate payment of principal by
the legal final maturity.
Please contact Moody's Client Service Desk at +44-20-7772
5454 or www.moodys.com for further information or to receive
a copy of the New Issue Report of this transaction.
Paris
Annick Poulain
Managing Director
Structured Finance Group
Moody's France S.A.
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Paris
Ariel Weil
Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's France S.A.
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