Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., structured nearly $385 million in financing for 470 Kent Avenue, a mixed-use development on the East River waterfront in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.

Mortgage applications fell by nearly 2 percent last week, although falling interest rates sparked an uptick in refinance applications, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 2.

JLL hired Kristy David as a Senior Vice President for its Clean Energy and Infrastructure Advisory team.

Tony Furr is Vice President of Sales and Business Development with Anomaly Squared, Greensboro, N.C. Nikki Reives is the company's Director of People Operations.

Dawar Alimi is CEO and Co-Founder of Lender Price, Pasadena, Calif., a provider of cloud-native pricing technology to the lending space. He has more than two decades of mortgage industry expertise, during which he has built industry-leading technology and founded several companies.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York, just released its CMBS 2023 Sector Outlook, which looks at key credit trends from 2022 and forecasts U.S. issuance activity for the new year. MBA NewsLink interviewed KBRA’s Larry Kay and Andrew Foster to get their insights on the current lending environment and property fundamentals as well as factors that may affect overall property performance in 2023.