EXECUTION
HOMEBANC CORP.,
SELLER
and
HMB ACCEPTANCE CORP.,
DEPOSITOR
MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 1,
2006
HomeBanc Mortgage Trust
2006-2
(Mortgage Backed Notes)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1. Sale
and Purchase of Mortgage Loans.
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Section 2.
Purchase Price of Mortgage Loans.
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Section 3.
Transfer of the Mortgage Loans.
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Section 4.
Representations and Warranties of the Seller.
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Section 5.
Covenants of the Seller.
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Section 6.
Cure, Repurchase and Substitution Obligations.
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Section 7.
Conditions to Obligation of the Depositor.
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Section 8.
Mandatory Delivery; Grant of Security Interest.
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Section 9.
Indemnification.
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Section 10.
Notices.
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Section 11.
Severability of Provisions.
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Section 12.
Governing Law.
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Section 13.
Agreement of the Seller.
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Section 14.
Survival.
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Section 15.
Assignment; Third Party Beneficiaries.
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Section 16.
Miscellaneous.
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Section 17.
Request for Opinions.
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Schedule
I Mortgage Loan Schedule
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Exhibit
A Representations and Warranties of HomeBanc
Corp.
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MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT dated as
of November 1, 2006 (this “Agreement”), is by and
between HMB Acceptance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
“Depositor”) and HomeBanc Corp., a Georgia corporation
(the “Seller”).
RECITALS
(1) Schedule I attached hereto and made a part
hereof lists one pool of one- to four-family, adjustable rate
mortgage loans (collectively, the “Mortgage Loans”)
currently owned by the Seller that the Seller desires to sell to
the Depositor.
(2) The Depositor desires to purchase the Mortgage
Loans from the Seller and intends immediately thereafter to
transfer the Mortgage Loans and any other assets constituting the
Trust Estate, and assign all its rights and delegate all of its
obligations under this Agreement, to HomeBanc Mortgage Trust 2006-2
(the “Issuer”) pursuant to the terms of a transfer and
servicing agreement (the “Transfer and Servicing
Agreement”) dated as of November 1, 2006, among the Issuer,
the Depositor, HomeBanc Corp., as Seller and as servicer (in such
capacity, the “Servicer”), Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as
master servicer (in such capacity, the “Master
Servicer”) and as securities administrator (in such capacity,
the “Securities Administrator”), and U.S. Bank National
Association, as indenture trustee (in such capacity, the
“Indenture Trustee”). The Issuer will in turn pledge
the Trust Estate and all such rights and obligations to the
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders.
(3) The Issuer will be formed pursuant to a trust
agreement (the “Trust Agreement”) dated as of November
1, 2006, among the Depositor, the Securities Administrator and
Wilmington Trust Company, as owner Trustee (the “Owner
Trustee”). The Issuer (i) pursuant to an indenture (the
“Indenture”) dated as of November 1, 2006, among the
Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee,
will issue the HomeBanc Mortgage Trust 2006-2 Mortgage Backed Notes
(the “Notes”) and (ii) pursuant to the Trust Agreement
will issue a single class of ownership certificate (the
“Ownership Certificate,” and together with the Notes,
the “Securities”).
(4) The Securities to be delivered to the Depositor
or its designee(s), registered in such names as the Depositor shall
designate, will be designated as (i) the HomeBanc Mortgage Trust
2006-2 Mortgage Backed Notes, Class A-1, Class A-2, Class M-1,
Class M-2 and Class B-1, and (ii) the HomeBanc Mortgage Trust
2006-2 Ownership Certificate.
(5) Capitalized terms used and not defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Transfer and
Servicing Agreement.
AGREEMENT
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual
promises herein made and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties
hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Sale and Purchase of Mortgage
Loans .
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, the Seller hereby sells, transfers and assigns to the
Depositor agrees to purchase, on the date of issuance of the
Securities, which is expected to be on or about November 30, 2006
(the “Closing Date”), and the Depositor hereby
purchases, the Mortgage Loans having an aggregate principal balance
as of November 1, 2006 (the “Cut-off Date”), of
$456,337,191.70, including all related Mortgage Files and any
Insurance Proceeds, REO Property, Liquidation Proceeds and other
recoveries relating to the Mortgage Loans, and all income,
revenues, issues products, revisions, substitutions, replacements,
profits, rents and all cash and non-cash proceeds of the
foregoing.
(b) The Seller and the Depositor have agreed upon
which of the mortgage loans owned by the Seller are to be purchased
by the Depositor pursuant to this Agreement, and the Seller has
prepared, or has provided information to the Depositor enabling the
Depositor to prepare, Schedule I attached hereto
(“Schedule I”), setting forth information with
respect to the Mortgage Loans to be purchased by the Depositor as
of the Closing Date. The Seller shall, with the Depositor’s
consent, amend or modify, or provide information to the Depositor
enabling the Depositor to amend or modify Schedule I on or
prior to the Closing Date if necessary to reflect the actual
Mortgage Loans transferred by the Seller and accepted by the
Depositor on the Closing Date. Schedule I, as so amended or
modified, shall conform to the requirements of the Depositor as set
forth in this Agreement and to the definition of “Mortgage
Loan Schedule” under the Transfer and Servicing Agreement,
and shall be the definitive Mortgage Loan Schedule attached as an
exhibit to the Transfer and Servicing Agreement.
Section 2. Purchase Price of Mortgage
Loans .
(a) On the Closing Date, as full consideration for
the Seller’s sale of the Mortgage Loans to the Depositor, the
Depositor shall deliver to the Seller cash equal to
$456,337,191.70.
(b) The Depositor or any assignee or transferee of
the Depositor (which may include the Issuer, acting on behalf of
the Noteholders) shall be entitled to all Monthly Payments due
after the Cut-off Date, and all curtailments or other principal
prepayments received with respect to the Mortgage Loans paid by
each borrower after the Cut-off Date, except that the Depositor or
any assignee or transferee of the Depositor will not be entitled to
any curtailments or other prepayments received on or after the
Cut-off Date but reflected in the aggregate Cut-off Date Balance.
All Monthly Payments due on or before the Cut-off Date and
collected on or after the Cut-off Date shall belong to the
Seller.
(c) Pursuant to the Transfer and Servicing
Agreement, the Depositor will transfer and assign all its right,
title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans and any other
assets constituting the Trust Estate to the Issuer in consideration
of the issuance of the Securities to the Depositor or its
designee(s).
Section 3. Transfer of the Mortgage Loans
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(a) Mortgage File . For purposes of this Agreement, the
“Mortgage File” will be as defined in the Transfer and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) Transfer of Ownership . Upon the sale of any Mortgage Loans, the
ownership of each Mortgage Loan Document (as defined below) with
respect thereto shall be vested in the Depositor, and the ownership
of all other records and documents with respect thereto prepared by
or which come into the possession of the Seller shall immediately
vest in the Depositor. The Seller shall, upon the direction of the
Depositor, promptly deliver to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association (the “Custodian”) or such other designee as
the Depositor may direct, any documents that come into its
possession with respect to such Mortgage Loans following such sale.
Prior to such delivery, the Seller shall hold any such documents
for the benefit of the Depositor, its successors and
assigns.
(c) Delivery of Mortgage Files
. To the extent not previously
delivered to the Depositor or a designee of the Depositor, the
Seller shall, not later than two Business Days prior to the Closing
Date, at the direction of the Depositor, deliver to the Custodian,
each of the mortgage loan documents required to be included in the
Mortgage File pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of the Transfer and
Servicing Agreement (the “Mortgage Loan Documents”).
The Mortgage Note for each such Mortgage Loan shall be endorsed in
blank or as otherwise directed by the Depositor, and the Mortgage
for each such Mortgage Loan shall name the Depositor, the Custodian
or such other party as designated by the Depositor as mortgagee or
beneficiary, as appropriate, or be assigned in blank or as
otherwise directed by the Depositor.
Prior to the transfer and sale of any Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgage Loan Documents delivered to the Custodian shall
be held by the Custodian for the benefit of the Seller and the
possession by the Custodian of such Mortgage Loan Documents will be
at the will of the Seller and will be in a custodial capacity only.
Following the transfer and sale of any Mortgage Loans from the
Seller to the Depositor in accordance with the terms and upon
satisfaction of the conditions of this Agreement, the Custodian
will hold all Mortgage Loan Documents delivered to it hereunder for
the benefit of the Depositor, as its agent and bailee. The
Custodian will act as a custodian for the receipt and custody of
all Mortgage Files and, after the transfer of any Mortgage Loans
from the Depositor to the Issuer, the Custodian will hold all
Mortgage Loan Documents delivered to it hereunder for the benefit
of the Issuer and on behalf of the Noteholders.
(d) Examination of Mortgage Loan Documents:
Acceptance of Mortgage Loans . To the extent not previously delivered to the
Depositor or a designee of the Depositor, the Seller shall, prior
to the Closing Date, either (i) deliver to the Depositor or its
designee in escrow, for examination, the Mortgage Loan Documents
pertaining to each Mortgage Loan then being sold by it or (ii) make
such Mortgage Loan Documents available to the Depositor or its
designee for examination at the Seller’s offices or at such
other place as the Seller shall specify. Any such Mortgage Loan
Documents so held by the Seller and so made available to the
Depositor or its designee shall be held by the Seller and so made
available solely as a matter of convenience to the Depositor or its
designee and in lieu of delivering such Mortgage Loan Documents to
the Depositor or its designee. The Depositor, the Custodian or a
designee of either entity may review the Mortgage Loan Documents to
verify that all documents required to be included in each Mortgage
File (as such term has been defined in the Transfer and Servicing
Agreement) are so included.
Prior to the Closing Date, the Seller shall
cause the Custodian to review the documents delivered pursuant to
Section 3(c) hereof to ascertain that, as to each Mortgage Loan
listed on Schedule I, (i) all documents required to be delivered by
the Seller pursuant to Section 3(c) have been received, (ii) such
documents appear regular on their face and relate to such Mortgage
Loan and (iii) the information on Schedule I accurately
reflects the information set forth in the corresponding Mortgage
File, to the extent required by Section 2.01 of the Transfer and
Servicing Agreement. An additional review shall be conducted by the
Custodian or its designee prior to the first anniversary of the
Closing Date to determine that all Mortgage Loan Documents required
to be included in the Mortgage File are included therein. If at any
time the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee, or the Custodian,
discovers or receives notice that any Mortgage Loan Document is
missing or defective in any material respect with respect to any
Mortgage Loan, the Seller shall correct or cure any such omission
or defect or, if such omission or defect materially impairs the
value of the Mortgage Loan, repurchase the defective Mortgage Loan
or substitute for such defective Mortgage Loan a Qualified
Substitute Mortgage Loan in accordance with and if permitted by the
terms of Section 6 hereof. At the time of such repurchase or
substitution, the Custodian shall release documents in its
possession relating to such Mortgage Loan to the Seller. The fact
that the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or a designee of either
entity has conducted or has failed to conduct any partial or
complete examination of the Mortgage Loan Documents prior to the
Closing Date shall not affect the rights of the Depositor (or any
assignee or successor thereof) to demand repurchase or other relief
as provided herein.
(e) Recordation of Assignments of
Mortgage . Subject to the
sale of the Mortgage Loans by the Seller to the Depositor, the
Depositor hereby authorizes and instructs the Seller, and the
Seller hereby agrees, to record all Assignments required to be
contained in the Mortgage File to the extent required pursuant to
Section 2.01 of the Transfer and Servicing Agreement. All recording
fees relating to the recordation of the Assignments as described
above shall be paid by the Seller. With respect to any Non-MERS
Mortgage Loans, if the Indenture Trustee does not receive, within
the time specified in the Transfer and Servicing Agreement,
evidence satisfactory to it of such recording with respect to any
Mortgage Loan to the extent required pursuant to Section 2.01 of
the Transfer and Servicing Agreement, the Seller shall, in
cooperation with the Indenture Trustee, correct or cure any such
omission or repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan within 90 days of
such demand, which demand shall be made within the time specified
in the Transfer and Servicing Agreement (including any such
extensions provided for therein).
Section 4. Representations and Warranties of
the Seller .
The Seller hereby represents and warrants to the
Depositor as follows:
(a) The Seller is a corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State
of Georgia and has full power and authority (i) to conduct its
business as presently conducted by it and (ii) to execute and
deliver this Agreement and perform its obligations under this
Agreement. The Seller is and will remain in compliance with the
laws of each state in which any Mortgaged Property is located to
the extent necessary to perform its obligations in respect of this
Agreement. A
(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the performance by the Seller of its obligations hereunder and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly
authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Seller. This
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Seller and
constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller,
enforceable in accordance with its respective terms subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting
the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to general
principles of equity and public policy considerations underlying
the securities laws, to the extent that such public policy
considerations limit the enforceability of the provisions of this
Agreement which purport to provide indemnification from securities
laws liabilities.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement by the Seller, and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, will not (i) violate or conflict with any law,
rule, regulation, order, judgment, award, administrative
interpretation, injunction, writ, decree or the like affecting the
Seller or by which the Seller is bound or (ii) result in a breach
of or constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse
of time, or both, would constitute a default) under any indenture
or other material agreement to which the Seller is a party or by
which the Seller is bound, which in the case of either clause (i)
or (ii) will have a material adverse effect on the Seller’s
ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
(d) No authorization, consent, approval, license,
exemption or other action by or notice to or registration or filing
with any governmental authority or administrative or regulatory
body is required for either the execution, delivery or performance
of this Agreement by the Seller or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby, except such as shall have been
made or obtained on or prior to the Closing Date.
(e) There are no pending or, to the best of the
Seller’s knowledge, threatened actions, proceedings or
investigations against the Seller before any court, governmental
arbitrator or instrumentality which if determined adversely to the
Seller may reasonably be expected, individually or in the
aggregate, to (i) have a material and adverse affect on the
Seller’s ability to perform its obligations under this
Agreement or (ii) to affect the legality, validity or
enforceability of this Agreement. A
(f) The Seller is solvent and the sale of the
Mortgage Loans will not cause the Seller to become insolvent. The
sale of the Mortgage Loans is not undertaken with the intent to
hinder, delay or defraud any of the Seller’s
creditors.
(g) The transfer of the Mortgage Loans to the
Depositor at the Closing Date will be treated by the Seller for
financial accounting and reporting purposes as a
financing.
(h) The Seller has not dealt with any broker or
agent or other Person who might be entitled to a fee, commission or
compensation in connection with the transaction contemplated by
this Agreement other than the Depositor and its
affiliates.
(i) The Seller is not in default with respect to
any order or decree of any court, regulation or demand of any
federal, state, municipal or governmental agency, which default
would materially and adversely affect the condition (financial or
other) or operations of the Seller or its properties or the
consequences of which would have a material adverse effect on the
Seller’s ability to perform its obligations under this
Agreement.
(j) The transfer, assignment and conveyance of the
Mortgage Notes and the Mortgages by the Seller hereunder are not
subject to the bulk transfer laws or any similar statutory
provisions in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
(k) The transactions contemplated by this Agreement
are in the ordinary course of business of the Seller.
(l) Each of the representations and warranties set
forth in Exhibit A hereto is true and correct with respect to the
Mortgage Loans as of the Closing Date.
(m) The Seller has been organized in conformity
with the requirements for qualification as a real estate investment
trust (a “REIT”); the Seller will file with its federal
income tax return for its taxable year ending December 31, 2004, an
election to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes;
and the Seller currently qualifies as, and it proposes to operate
in a manner that will enable it to continue to qualify as, a
REIT.
Section 5. Covenants of the Seller
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The Seller hereby covenants with the Depositor
as follows:
(a) On or before the Closing Date, the Seller shall
take all steps required of it to effectuate the transfer of the
Mortgage Loans to the Issuer, as transferee of the Depositor, free
and clear of any lien, charge or encumbrance.
(b) The Seller shall use its best efforts to make
available to counsel for the Depositor in executed form each of the
documents listed in Section 7(b) below no later than two Business
Days before the Closing Date, it being understood that such
documents are to be released and delivered only on the closing of
the transaction contemplated hereby and the sale of the
Securities.
(c) The Seller shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Depositor (i) an Opinion of Counsel as to various
corporate matters substantially in a form satisfactory to the
Depositor and (ii) such other Opinions of Counsel, if any, as are
required by any Rating Agency for the issuance of the ratings on
the Notes specified in Section 7(d) below.
Section 6. Cure, Repurchase and Substitution
Obligations .
(a) Each of the representations and warranties of
the Seller contained herein shall survive the purchase by the
Depositor of any of the Mortgage Loans and shall continue in full
force and effect, notwithstanding any restrictive or qualified
endorsement on the Mortgage Notes and notwithstanding subsequent
termination of this Agreement or the Transfer and Servicing
Agreement. The representations and warranties shall not be impaired
by any review and examination of Mortgage Loan Documents or other
documents evidencing or relating to the Mortgage Loans or any
failure on the part of the Depositor to review or examine such
documents and shall inure to the benefit of any assignee,
transferee or designee of the Depositor, including the Issuer for
the benefit of the Noteholders and the Custodian. With respect to
the representations and warranties contained herein that are made
to the best of the Seller’s knowledge or as to which the
Seller has no knowledge, if it is discovered by the Seller, the
Depositor, the Custodian or the Indenture Trustee that the
substance of any such representation and warranty is inaccurate and
such inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the value of the
related Mortgage Loan, then notwithstanding the Seller’s
knowledge or lack of knowledge with respect to the inaccuracy of
such representation and warranty at the time it was made, the
Seller shall take the action described in the following paragraph
in respect of such Mortgage Loan.
(b) Upon discovery or receipt of notice by the
Seller, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Custodian of
any missing or materially defective document in any Mortgage File,
or a breach of any of the Seller’s representations and
warranties set forth in Section 4 hereof with respect to any
Mortgage Loan, which in any of the foregoing cases materially and
adversely affects the value of any Mortgage Loan or the interest
therein of the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders,
the party discovering or receiving notice of such missing or
materially defective document, breach, or default shall give prompt
written notice to the others. Upon its discovery or its receipt of
notice of any such missing or materially defective document, breach
or default (the “Defect Discovery Date”), the Seller
shall either (a) within 90 days of discovery or receipt of such
notice, provide the Custodian with such missing documents or cure
such defect, breach or default, in all material respects or (b)
within 90 days of such discovery or receipt of such notice, either
repurchase the affected Mortgage Loan at the purchase price
therefor or cause the removal of such Mortgage Loan from the Trust
Estate (in which case it shall become a Deleted Mortgage Loan) and
substitute therefor one or more Qualified Substitute Mortgage Loans
as defined in the Transfer and Servicing Agreement; provided,
however , that any such substitution shall occur within two
years of the Closing Date. The Indenture Trustee or its designee
shall amend the Mortgage Loan Schedule to reflect the withdrawal of
any Mortgage Loan from the terms of this Agreement and the Transfer
and Servicing Agreement and the addition, if any, of a Qualified
Substitute Mortgage Loan. In order to effect a substitution
pursuant to this Section, the Seller will deliver (i) to the
Custodian each of the Mortgage Loan Documents required to be
contained in the Mortgage File with respect to the Substitute
Mortgage Loan(s) and (ii) if the aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance on the date of substitution of the Qualified Substitute
Mortgage Loan(s) is less than the aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance of the Deleted Mortgage Loan(s) (after application of
Monthly Payments due in the month of substitution), to the Issuer
cash in an amount equal to such substitution adjustment amount. Any
repurchase pursuant to this Section shall be accomplished by the
delivery into the Custodial Account, or at the direction of the
Depositor, on (or determined as of) the last day of the calendar
month in which such repurchase is made, of the purchase price for
the Mortgage Loans to be repurchased.
(c) In addition to such repurchase or substitution
obligation, the Seller shall indemnify the Depositor and hold it
harmless against any losses, damages, penalties, fines,
forfeitures, reasonable and necessary legal fees and related costs,
judgments, and other costs and expenses resulting from any claim,
demand, defense or assertion based on or grounded upon, or
resulting from, a breach of