Category: News and Trends

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.

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.

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SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association released its year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicers’ volumes as of December 31.

SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association said 6 percent, or $102.2 billion, of the $1.8 trillion outstanding commercial and multifamily mortgages held by non-bank lenders and investors will mature in 2018, a 42 percent decrease from $175.9 billion in 2017.

The Mortgage Bankers Association projects commercial and multifamily mortgage originations will decline slightly in 2018, ending the year at $549 billion, down 3% percent from 2017.

SAN DIEGO–Commercial and multifamily mortgage originations rose by 15 percent for the full-year 2017 over 2016, according to preliminary estimates from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations.

SAN DIEGO–Commercial real estate remains healthy going into 2018, but it dynamics are changing, says Mortgage Bankers Association Vice President of Commercial and Multifamily Research Jamie Woodwell.

Hotel lenders think asset values are approaching a peak, but their short-term outlooks are less cautious today than one year ago, the STR/RobertDouglas Hotel Lender Survey reported.