Category: News and Trends

The Mortgage Bankers Association sent a letter to House Financial Services committee members offering support for a bill that would make sweeping changes to provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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The U.S. economy and commercial real estate should experience “moderate” growth through 2019, said the Urban Land Institute, Washington. D.C.

Institutional investors plan to reduce their new capital commitments to real estate by 19 percent this year, reported Institutional Real Estate Inc., San Ramon, Calif. and Kingsley Associates, San Francisco.

ExactBid, San Jose, Calif. integrated its Real Estate Information Management System bank appraisal management platform with appraisal software system Narrative1.

Commercial real estate lenders and investors have grown more confident since November’s presidential election, reported law firm Akerman LLP, Miami.

Hotel lenders are tightening leverage and lowering loan amounts as the sector’s performance metrics slip, reported Marcus & Millichap, Calabasas, Calif.

Arbor Realty Trust, Uniondale, N.Y., closed a $360 million commercial real estate mortgage securitization.

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

The industrial sector has faced tough times over the past few years as the economy continues its shift away from manufacturing. However, recent economic data related to the U.S. industrial real estate market pointing in a positive direction, said CBRE Econometrics Advisors, Los Angeles.