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
Section 1. Sale and Purchase of Mortgage
Loans.
2
Section 2. Purchase Price of Mortgage
Loans.
2
Section 3. Transfer of the Mortgage
Loans.
2
Section 4. Representations and Warranties
of the Seller.
4
Section 5. Covenants of the
Seller.
6
Section 6. Cure, Repurchase and
Substitution Obligations.
6
Section 7. Conditions to Obligation of
the Depositor.
8
Section 8. Mandatory Delivery; Grant of
Security Interest.
9
Section 9. Indemnification.
9
Section 10. Notices.
11
Section 11. Severability of
Provisions.
12
Section 12. Governing Law.
12
Section 13. Agreement of the
Seller.
12
Section 14. Survival.
13
Section 15. Assignment; Third Party
Beneficiaries.
13
Section 16. Miscellaneous.
13
Section 17. Request for
Opinions.
14
Schedule I
Mortgage Loan Schedule
Exhibit A
Representations and Warranties of
HomeBanc Corp.
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.
(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.
(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 .
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 the Seller’s rep