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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-050931"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RWT"
cik: "0000930236"
company_name: "REDWOOD TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2026-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T02:37:45.944586+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Redwood Trust forms JV with Castlelake to buy up to $8B in prime jumbo mortgages

## Summary
- JV targets up to $8B of Sequoia-sourced prime jumbo loans, with flexibility to scale.
- Redwood's Sequoia platform has purchased ~$100B in loans and securitized >$50B since 1994.
- Castlelake manages ~$36B in assets; has financed >$10B in residential/commercial loans since 2024.
- CFO Brooke Carillo states loan acquisition volumes more than doubled over the past year.
- JV includes potential acquisition of seasoned loans from bank balance sheets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-050931
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RWT
- cik: 0000930236
- company_name: REDWOOD TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2026-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465926050931/0001104659-26-050931-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465926050931/tm2613023d1_8k.htm

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