Category: News and Trends

Small-cap commercial real estate leasing activity rebounded “smartly” during the fourth quarter, though overall demand for the year came up short compared with 2016, reported Boxwood Means, Stamford, Conn.

Investment property sales dollar volume in core Manhattan fell 41 percent year-over-year to $23 billion in 2017–the lowest since 2010–reported Eastern Consolidated, New York.

The Mortgage Bankers Association, in a Feb. 26 letter to HUD, said manufactured housing offers the agency with opportunities to help meet the nation’s affordable housing needs and urged it to take a more flexible regulatory approach.

The Mortgage Bankers Association appointed Deborah Dubois as President of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation.

The Mortgage Bankers Association appointed Deborah Dubois as President of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation.

Over the past few weeks, markets reassessed prospects for inflation following a Bureau of Labor Statistics report that wages increased 2.9 percent in January on a year over year basis after a stagnant year of growth in the 2.5-2.6 percent range.

Saving for a down payment on the median U.S home takes six years longer for a single person than a couple, according to a new Zillow analysis–a factor that could discourage some from even trying.

SAN DIEGO–Last year was good for life insurance company lenders, but it wasn’t always easy to meet goals, lenders said.

SAN DIEGO–The lines among different capital sources are becoming blurred as more and more money pursues commercial real estate, analysts said here at the MBA Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo.

Freddie Mac, McLean, Va., named multifamily lenders who transacted the most financing volume with the company in 2017.