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Exhibit
10.1
EXECUTION
HOMEBANC CORP.,
SELLER
and
HMB ACCEPTANCE
CORP.,
DEPOSITOR
MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
Dated as of February 1,
2005
HomeBanc Mortgage Trust
2005-1
(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
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Mortgage Loan Schedule
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Exhibit A
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Representations and Warranties of
HomeBanc Corp.
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MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE
AGREEMENT dated as of February 1, 2005 (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 2005-1 (the “Issuer”) pursuant to the
terms of a transfer and servicing agreement (the “Transfer
and Servicing Agreement”) dated as of February 1, 2005, 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 February 1, 2005, among the Depositor, U.S. Bank
National Association, as administrator (in such capacity, the
“Administrator”) and Wilmington Trust Company, as owner
Trustee (the “Owner Trustee”). The Issuer (i) pursuant
to an indenture (the “Indenture”) dated as of February
1, 2005, between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, will issue
the HomeBanc Mortgage Trust 2005-1 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 2005-1 Mortgage Backed Notes, Class
A-1, Class A-2, Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class M-4, Class
M-5, Class M-6, Class B-1 and Class B-2, and (ii) the HomeBanc
Mortgage Trust 2005-1 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 agrees to sell, and the
Depositor agrees to purchase, on the date of issuance of the
Securities, which is expected to be on or about February 23, 2005
(the “Closing Date”), the Mortgage Loans having an
aggregate principal balance as of February 1, 2005 (the
“Cut-off Date”), of $1,097,833,204.51, 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 $1,097,833,204.51.
(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 .
(a) Mortgage File .
For purposes of this Agreement, the “Mortgage File”
will be as defined in the Transfer and Servicing
Agreement.
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(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.
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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.
(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
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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.
(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.
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(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 .
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
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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
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