Category: News and Trends

While volume has held relatively steady in recent years, the composition of securitized commercial and multifamily mortgage debt has changed dramatically.

Commercial real estate construction continues to move steadily forward despite growing uncertainty and seasonal swings, reported JLL, Chicago.

Despite recent headlines about store closures across the country–Payless ShoeSource announced on Tuesday it will close 400 stores–overall retail real estate statistics show very little change, reported Reis, New York.

Commercial real estate price indexes from Green Street Advisors and CoStar diverged in March, analysts at the firms said.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rates increased again in March as another wave of loans turned newly delinquent, reported Trepp, New York.

Colliers International Group acquired WelshCo LLC, Minnetonka, Minn., and its brokerage, property management, facilities and architecture divisions.

The Census Bureau released its annual Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units, reporting increases in 2016 but noting a slowdown toward the end of the year.

Freddie Mac, McLean, Va., said total multifamily origination volumes could increase by 3-6 percent this year to $295 billion, depending on movements in the 10-Year Treasury rate.

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The Mortgage Bankers Association and nearly a dozen other industry trade groups sent a letter supporting proposed House legislation that would clarify High Volatility Commercial Real Estate provisions under the Basel III rule.