MBA NewsLink interviewed PGIM Real Estate Finance Managing Director Mike McRoberts, who serves as Chairman of the firm’s Agency platform.

It seemed like it took forever—and in political terms, seven months feels like forever—but Brian Montgomery is finally, officially, HUD Deputy Secretary.

HJ Sims, Fairfield, Conn., opened a new West Coast office in Orange County, Calif., and hired Brady Johnson as Senior Vice President.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the hotel sector exceptionally hard, leading to some creative financing and investment opportunities, said Cushman & Wakefield, Chicago.

COVID-19 pandemic effects are reaching the small multifamily sector, with loan originations and asset prices falling, reported Arbor and Chandan Economics.

JLL Capital Markets, Chicago, arranged $85.2 million for retail and condominium properties in Boulder, Colo. and Miami.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Housing Finance Agency and HUD launched a new mortgage and housing assistance website designed to ensure homeowners and renters have current and accurate housing assistance information during the COVID-19 national emergency.

New apartment lease signings “clawed back” to year-ago levels in late April after plunging nearly 50 percent in late March, reported RealPage, Richardson, Texas.

Commercial real estate occupier and investor sentiments moved into negative territory in both the U.S. and Canada, the Association for International Real Estate Investors and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reported.