The Mortgage Bankers Association, in comments to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said the FHFA Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2021-2024 should continue to work toward an ultimate goal: releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from federal conservatorship—but only when they are able to do so without risk to the real estate finance markets.

MBA NewsLink interviewed Valerie Achtemeier, Executive Vice President at CBRE Capital Markets in the Debt & Structured Finance Group.

Emerging technologies and start-up firms proliferated in commercial real estate over the last several years. With the conventional wisdom being that while the single-family real estate finance industry has embraced new technologies and innovation, CRE was a laggard and therein lies a massive opportunity.

CBRE announced Zack Holderman joined its Healthcare and Life Science Capital Markets team as a Senior Vice President.

Gantry, San Francisco, secured $12.75 million in financing for industrial properties in California and Washington.

The final national jobs report before the November elections showed a slowing pace of job creation amid continued economic volatility, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.

Real estate investors have expanded their climate risk analysis to explore market-level impacts, said the Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C.

Cap rates in the single-tenant net lease retail, office and industrial sectors reached record lows in the third quarter, reported Boulder Group, Wilmette, Ill.

With Californians set to vote on ballot initiative Propositions 15 and 21 on Election Day, MBA 2020 Chair Brian Stoffers, CMB, joined MBANow to discuss the initiatives, MBA and its coalition partners’ opposition to them and how MBA members can help.

Fitch Ratings, New York, said life insurance companies could see higher losses on commercial mortgage loans than they saw during the Great Recession. The pessimistic forecast reflects both the severity ...