Category: News and Trends

Morningstar has agreed to acquire fellow credit rating agency DBRS. The firms expect the transaction to close early in the third quarter.

In search for yield and a vote of confidence in the assets, investors have pulled commercial mortgage-backed securities credit spreads lower in recent years.

Rent prices in single-family rental properties increased 2.9 percent year-over-year in March, in part due to strong employment figures, reported CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif.

Kenneth R. Harney, whose syndicated column “The Nation’s Housing” served as a source of news and information for consumers and real estate finance professionals alike, died May 23 from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 75.

Adverse selection in the commercial mortgage-backed securities 1.0 universe of pre-2009 loans drove loss severities higher last year, reported Fitch Ratings, New York.

The U.S. retail market is flat as shifts in consumer spending result in a high and stagnant retail vacancy rate, said Ten-X, Irvine, Calif.

In search for yield and a vote of confidence in the assets, investors have pulled commercial mortgage-backed securities credit spreads lower in recent years.

In search for yield and a vote of confidence in the assets, investors have pulled commercial mortgage-backed securities credit spreads lower in recent years.

LOS ANGELES–Commercial real estate is enjoying good times, but to paraphrase Game of Thrones, is Winter coming? MBA Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Research Jamie Woodwell shared his outlook for the sector here at the MBA Commercial/Multifamily Servicing & Technology Conference.

NEW YORK–Mortgage Bankers Association President & CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, said housing finance reform is “critically important” to the real estate finance industry, to consumers and the American economy.