The Mortgage Bankers Association June 18 submitted a comment letter to the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, recommending improvements to the Basel III re-proposal.

For more than a decade, policymakers, researchers, and industry stakeholders have focused on addressing a persistent shortage of housing in the United States. However, changing demographic and market conditions suggest that the housing landscape may look markedly different in the years ahead. This is according to a new white paper released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) examining recent and emerging shifts in U.S. housing demand and supply.

Affordability challenges and rising economic uncertainty are squeezing housing conditions for both owners and renters, the State of the Nation’s Housing report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

Cotality, Irvine, Calif., released its Single-Family Rent Index for April, finding single-family rent prices increased 1.4% year-over-year.

The data center market is expanding as demand from artificial intelligence uses outpaces available space capacity, pushing vacancy rates toward historic lows despite a wave of new supply, according to CBRE, Dallas.

Industry briefs from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital and CBRE.

Mesa West Capital, Los Angeles, provided McDowell Properties with a $29.7 million first mortgage loan to acquire and renovate a multifamily community in Cary, N.C.