SAN DIEGO–The landscape in Washington, D.C. is changing, and MBA views it as a “new era of opportunity,” said MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, here at the MBA Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

Total commercial and multifamily mortgage borrowing and lending is expected to rise to $583 billion in 2025, which is a 16% increase from 2024’s estimated total of $503 billion. This is according to an updated baseline forecast released Feb. 10 by the Mortgage Bankers Association at its 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

SAN DIEGO–Looking at it in the rear-view mirror, 2024 seems like two very different environments, senior executives said here at MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO–As sustainability takes center stage in the financial industry, green lending has become a niche area with unique opportunities and challenges, panelists noted here at the MBA Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.  

Twenty percent ($957 billion) of $4.8 trillion of outstanding commercial mortgages held by lenders and investors will mature in 2025, a 3% increase from the $929 billion that matured in 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2024 Commercial Real Estate Survey of Loan Maturity Volumes, released at the 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations were 84% higher in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to a year earlier, and increased 30% from the third quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations, released Feb. 10 at the 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Feb. 10 released its year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicers’ volumes as of Dec. 31, 2024, at its 2025 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

New York City and Nashville are projected to open the most hotel rooms in the U.S. in 2025, according to CoStar, Washington, D.C.

There were 143,000 jobs added to total nonfarm payroll employment in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Feb. 7.

Greystone, New York, provided a $20.8 million Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting & Servicing loan to refinance a 206-unit multifamily property in Allentown, Pa.