The Mortgage Bankers Association announced its CREF Careers Student Fellowship Program winners for this year.
Category: News and Trends
Hodes Weill, Cornell University: Institutional Target Allocations to Real Estate Decline
Institutional investors decreased their target allocations to real estate by 10 basis points in 2025 to 10.7%–the first decline in more than a decade–a new report from Hodes Weill & Assocs. and Cornell University found.
Commercial and Multifamily People in the News, Nov. 13, 2025
Commercial and multifamily personnel news from SitusAMC and JLL.
PwC, ULI Look at Emerging Trends for 2026
The commercial real estate sector is seeing a renewed focus on core fundamentals and deploying capital into high-growth areas, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2026, from PwC and the Urban Land Institute.
ATTOM: Vacancy, Zombie Foreclosure Rates Down
ATTOM, Irvine, Calif., released its Q4 2025 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, finding that 1.32% of residential properties in the U.S. were vacant. That amounts to about 1.4 million homes.
MBA Chart of the Week: Refinance-Driven Growth in CRE Mortgage Originations
This week’s Chart of the Week focuses on trends in commercial and multifamily originations, which saw a 36% increase year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025.
Commercial Real Estate Lending Momentum Reaches Highest Level Since 2018: CBRE
Commercial real estate lending improved in the third quarter as stabilizing borrowing costs and tighter credit spreads helped bridge pricing gaps between buyers and sellers and boosted deal activity, according to CBRE, Dallas.
Dealmaker: M&T Realty Capital Corp. Provides $23M Cash-Out Refinance in Pennsylvania
M&T Realty Capital Corp., Baltimore, announced the closing of a $23.2 million Freddie Mac floating-rate refinance for DLP Kutztown, an apartment community in Maxatawny Township in eastern Pennsylvania.
CREF Policy Update: MBA Submits Comments on FHFA Proposed GSE Housing Goals and Strategic Plan
Commercial and multifamily developments and activities from MBA important to your business and our industry.
MBA: Commercial/Multifamily Borrowing Increased 36% in the Third Quarter of 2025
Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations were 36% higher in the third quarter of 2025 compared to a year earlier, and increased 18% from the second quarter of 2025, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations.