The Week Ahead, Apr. 17, 2023: On-Site at the MBA National Advocacy Conference
Good morning and happy Monday! MBA NewsLink comes to you onsite this week from the MBA National Advocacy Conference, which takes place Tuesday, Apr. 18 and Wednesday, Apr.19 at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C.
MBA welcomes hundreds of its members to D.C. this week to experience the largest advocacy event of the year focused solely on the issues facing the real estate finance industry. MBA’s National Advocacy Conference is the only advocacy event focused solely on real estate finance issues. NAC features members of Congress, informative policy briefings, and the traditional meetings on Capitol Hill with elected officials.
MBA will also present its Burton C. Wood Legislative Service award on Tuesday.
For more information, click here.
Also underway here in D.C. today and tomorrow is the MBA State & Local Workshop, designed for leaders and key stakeholders of state and local associations.
Now, here’s what else is happening this week:
MBA Reports. MBA kicks things off this afternoon (Monday, Apr. 17) with its monthly Loan Monitoring Survey (formerly the MBA Forbearance and Call Volume Survey). MBA Vice President of Industry Analysis Marina Walsh, CMB, will provide commentary and analysis.
MBA also kicks off two weeks of housing performance reports on Tuesday, Apr. 18 with its monthly Builder Applications Survey, with commentary and analysis from MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist Joel Kan.
On Wednesday, Apr. 19,MBA releases its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, with Kan again providing commentary and analysis.
And if you haven’t yet checked out the MBA State of the Association, featuring a look back at key issues affecting the real estate finance industry in 2022 and the economic and policy outlook for 2023, please do so by clicking the link above.
Other Economic Reports. As mentioned above, the next two weeks are chock full of housing market reports. Here are this week’s reports; those that MBA NewsLink will cover are in italics:
—Monday: MBA Loan Monitoring Survey; National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index; Empire State Manufacturing Survey
—Tuesday: MBA Builder Applications Survey; New Residential Construction
—Wednesday: MBA Weekly Applications Survey
—Thursday: Existing Home Sales; Initial Claims; Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey
—Friday: (no reports)
Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week—just in time for the MBA National Advocacy Conference.
The Senate Banking Committee has no hearings scheduled this week. However, the House Financial Services Committee holds three hearings of interest this week:
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler visits the Financial Services Committee this Tuesday, Apr. 18, for a hearing on “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission.” The hearing begins at 10:00 a.m. ET in 2128 Rayburn House Office Building and can be accessed online here. The Committee Memorandum can be found here.
On Wednesday, Apr. 19, the Financial Services Committee holds a hearing, “Understanding Stablecoins’ Role in Payments and the Need for Legislation.” The hearing begins at 10:00 a.m. ET in 2128 Rayburn and can be accessed online here.
Also on Wednesday, Apr. 19, the Committee holds a hearing, “A Roadmap for Growth: Reforms to Encourage Capital Formation and Investment Opportunities for All Americans.” The hearing begins at 2:00 p.m. ET in 2128 Rayburn and can be accessed online here.
For more information about the House and Senate, visit www.house.gov and www.senate.gov, respectively. For more information about upcoming hearings in the Senate Banking Committee, click here. For more information about upcoming hearings in the House Financial Services Committee, click here.
And finally, MBA Conferences. Here’s a list of upcoming MBA conferences:
Apr. 17-18: MBA State & Local Workshop, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.
Apr. 18-19: MBA National Advocacy Conference, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.
Apr. 26-27: MBA Commercial/Multifamily Human Resources Roundtable 2023. For more information, click here.
May 7-10: MBA Legal Issues & Regulatory Compliance Conference, Austin, Texas. For more information, click here.
May 9-12: MBA Commercial/Multifamily Housing Servicing and Technology Conference, Chicago. For more information, click here.
May 21-24: MBA Secondary and Capital Markets Conference & Expo, New York. For more information, click here.
June 4-7: MBA Chairman’s Conference, Manalapan, Fla. For more information, click here.
June 5-8: MISMO Spring Summit, Portland, Ore. For more information, click here.
Sept. 10-12: MBA Regulatory Compliance Conference, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.
Sept. 11-13: MBA Risk Management, QA and Fraud Prevention Forum, Phoenix. For more information, click here.
Oct. 14: mPowering You: MBA’s Summit For Women in Real Estate Finance, Philadelphia. For more information, click here.
Oct. 15-18: MBA Annual Convention & Expo, Philadelphia. For more information, click here.
For more information, click the links above or visit https://www.mba.org/conferences-and-education/conferences-and-meetings.
For the most up-to-date information regarding legislative activity at the state and local level, visit the MBA State Legislative Database here.
For information about MBA Education events, visit http://www.mbaeducation.org.
For information about the National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA), visit https://www.nammba.org/.
Enjoy the week!
