The Lede

The Real Deal New York, Sept. 19, 2017--Konrad PutzierNine months after agreeing to a $7.2 billion settlement with U.S. regulators, Deutsche Bank is on top of the New York City real estate lending world.

Bloomberg, Sept. 19, 2017--Lisa AbramowiczThe company has sought to prop up its failing business model for years by shuffling debt around and adding leverage to less-encumbered assets. This has undermined the extra safety and value that the real estate should have provided.

Mortgage Women Magazine, September 2017--Marcia DaviesMBA COO Marcia Davies says creating a space for women to advance and providing tools so they can reach their full potential must be a collective goal of the real estate finance industry.

Wall Street Journal, Sept. 18, 2017--Nick Timiraos (subscription)The Federal Reserve resorted to a series of shock-and-awe stimulus campaigns to stabilize the economy after the financial crisis. Now the Fed is preparing the final move to unwind its support--and it wants to be as boring as possible.

Voice of America, Sept. 18, 2017--Jim RandleU.S. central bank leaders are expected to hold the key interest rate steady this week, but they may begin trimming a huge bond-buying program that was intended to boost economic growth.

Forbes, Sept. 15, 2017--Lara O'KeefeLast week's Equifax data breach shed light once again on the possible ramifications of hacks in the commercial real estate industry if companies do not invest in cybersecurity tech.

HousingWire, Sept. 15, 2017--Kelsey RamirezMnuchin said moving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship will come after tax reform, and will be an issue brought up in 2018. He said the mortgage giants still have a lot of changes they need to make before being moved out of conservatorship.

Bloomberg, Sept. 15, 2017--Sho ChandraAn unexpected decline in August retail sales and downward revisions to the prior two months mainly reflected weaker results at auto dealerships, Commerce Department figures showed Friday.

Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2017--Ben Leubsdorf, Paul Overberg (subscription)The technology hub of San Francisco surpassed the nation's capital last year as the highest-earning large U.S. metropolitan area. Median household income in the San Francisco metro area in 2016 was $96,667, just ahead of the $95,843 figure for the Washington region, the Census Bureau announced Thursday.

National Mortgage News, Sept. 14, 2017--Elina Tarkazikis (subscription)Damage from Hurricane Irma could affect some $26.6 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities, according to Morningstar Credit Ratings.

Bloomberg, Sept. 14, 2017--Oshrat CarmielRenters signed 7,061 new leases in August, the most for any month in data going back to January 2008, according to a report Thursday by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Despite all those deals, vacancies climbed to 2.27 percent from 2.14 percent a year earlier, the first annual increase since February.

Forbes, Sept. 20, 2017--Ely Razin Second quarter commercial real estate loan originations in New York City weren't just big, they were really, really big. The size of those loans appears to be masking what would otherwise look like a decline in New York loan origination for the quarter.

Private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance volume remained strong through August with $9.9 billion priced, reported Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York.

Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C., priced its ninth Multifamily Delegated Underwriting and Servicing Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit of 2017 under its Fannie Mae Guaranteed Multifamily Structures program on September 14. It totaled $772.5 million.

Dallas, Seattle and San Francisco offer commercial real estate investors the best opportunities among large markets from a relative value vs. price perspective, reported Situs RERC, Houston.

The Senate yesterday confirmed President Trump's nomination of Pamela Patenaude to serve as Deputy Secretary of HUD.

There are currently nearly 600,000 hotel rooms under contract to be built in the United States--up 8.8 percent compared to a year ago--reported STR, Hendersonville, Tenn.

Private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance volume remained strong through August with $9.9 billion priced, reported Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York.

Private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance volume remained strong through August with $9.9 billion priced, reported Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York.

Institutional investors expect commercial real estate returns to slip over the next year, the Pension Real Estate Association's Consensus Forecast survey said.

Institutional investors expect commercial real estate returns to slip over the next year, the Pension Real Estate Association's Consensus Forecast survey said.

Institutional investors expect commercial real estate returns to slip over the next year, the Pension Real Estate Association's Consensus Forecast survey said.