MBA Presents Smriti L. Popenoe with the 2025 CREF Distinguished Service Award

SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association awarded Smriti L. Popenoe, Co-CEO, President, and Chief Investment Officer at Dynex Capital, with the 2025 Commercial Real Estate Finance Distinguished Service Award here at its 2015 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

MBA: 20% of Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Balances Mature in 2025

Twenty percent ($957 billion) of $4.8 trillion of outstanding commercial mortgages held by lenders and investors will mature in 2025, a 3% increase from the $929 billion that matured in 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2024 Commercial Real Estate Survey of Loan Maturity Volumes, released at the 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

Commercial/Multifamily Borrowing Up in the Fourth Quarter of 2024, MBA Reports

Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations were 84% higher in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to a year earlier, and increased 30% from the third quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations, released Feb. 10 at the 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

Green Lending Compliance: Balancing Costs and Opportunities

SAN DIEGO–As sustainability takes center stage in the financial industry, green lending has become a niche area with unique opportunities and challenges, panelists noted here at the MBA Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.  

Christine Chandler: For Servicers, Challenges, Opportunities Abound

DALLAS–Christine Chandler, 2025 Mortgage Bankers Association Chair-Elect and Chief Credit Officer and Chief Operating Officer at M&T Realty Capital Corp., discussed hot topics in the servicing industry–including natural disasters, insurance costs and policy challenges–during her opening remarks at MBA’s 2025 Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo.