Category: News and Trends

The Mortgage Bankers Association has prepared numerous resources for homeowners and renters affected by Hurricane Harvey.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has prepared numerous resources for homeowners and renters affected by Hurricane Harvey.

The 10 largest U.S. office markets returned solid fundamentals during the second quarter, said Colliers International, New York.

The U.S. homeownership rate, which fell in 2014 to a 20-year low, is poised to recover some in the next few years, buoyed by positive underlying fundamentals, said First American Financial Corp., Santa Ana, Calif.

Commercial property market supply and demand fundamentals remained stable in the first quarter, reported Moody’s Investors Service, New York.

The second quarter brought very little movement in single-tenant net lease property cap rates overall, reported Calkain, Herndon. Va.

Commercial real estate investors are looking selectively at opportunities and shifting away from more conventional single-asset transactions, reported JLL, Chicago.

Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C., priced its first GeMS REMIC backed exclusively by its Green MBS collateral.

The number of hotel guestrooms under contract grew 11.7 percent between July 2016 and last month, reported STR, Hendersonville, Tenn.

The outlook for U.S. economic growth over the next three years looks slightly weaker than it did three months ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Survey of Professional Forecasters reported.