Category: News and Trends

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The Mortgage Bankers Association released a new MBANow video on YouTube featuring MBA Chairman Rodrigo Lopez, CMB, who discusses the new MBA paper, GSE Reform Principles and Guardrails.

Steady absorption, a modest drop in multifamily starts and stable employment growth should keep multifamily oversupply risk in check, reported Freddie Mac Multifamily, McLean, Va.

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The U.S. hotel industry will likely see “slower but steady” growth through 2018, reported STR, Hendersonville, Tenn., and Tourism Economics, Philadelphia.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers expect 2017 to carry over much of the momentum from 2016, according to a new Mortgage Bankers Association survey of the top commercial and multifamily mortgage origination firms.

Commercial property market supply-demand fundamentals held steady in the third quarter, reported Moody’s Investors Service, New York.

Reis, New York, doubled its coverage of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit properties, giving subscribers information on 256 counties in 110 U.S. metros.

Commercial property price growth slipped in December, falling 1.3 percent, reported CoStar, Washington, D.C.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers expect 2017 to carry over much of the momentum from 2016, according to a new Mortgage Bankers Association survey of the top commercial and multifamily mortgage origination firms.