Mortgage applications increased 1.7% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Nov. 15, 2024. 

For mortgage bankers who have survived the severe 30-year bottoming of the last two years, the hope for a 2025 rising tide to lift volumes and margins is anticipated and rejoiced.

MBA Newslink recently interviewed Malay Bansal, Head of Trading & Capital Markets at 3650 Capital, who shared insights about the CMBS issuer ecosystem and CRE securitization markets.

MBA’s Independent Mortgage Bankers Conference (IMB25), taking place January 27-29 in Austin, Texas, is the industry event of the year for IMBs, curated by IMBs.

Yardi Matrix, Santa Barbara, Calif., reported that multifamily advertised rents fell $3 to an average of $1,748 in October.

MISMO, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, launched the Innovation Investment Fee in 2021 to allow lenders to support the important work necessary to foster efficiency, cost reduction, interoperability, digital transformation and innovation in the mortgage process.