CRE Executive Perspectives: Looking Back at 2024

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.

MBA Presents Smriti L. Popenoe with the 2025 CREF Distinguished Service Award

SAN DIEGO–The Mortgage Bankers Association awarded Smriti L. Popenoe, Co-CEO, President, and Chief Investment Officer at Dynex Capital, with the 2025 Commercial Real Estate Finance Distinguished Service Award here at its 2015 Commercial/Multifamily Finance Convention and Expo.

Christine Chandler: For Servicers, Challenges, Opportunities Abound

DALLAS–Christine Chandler, 2025 Mortgage Bankers Association Chair-Elect and Chief Credit Officer and Chief Operating Officer at M&T Realty Capital Corp., discussed hot topics in the servicing industry–including natural disasters, insurance costs and policy challenges–during her opening remarks at MBA’s 2025 Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo.

Laura Escobar, Christine Chandler, Owen Lee Sworn In

DENVER–Laura Escobar, President of Lennar Mortgage, was sworn in Sunday as Chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association during MBA’s Annual Convention & Expo. M&T Realty Capital Corporation’s Christine Chandler and Success Mortgage Partners’ Owen Lee were sworn in as Chair-Elect and Vice Chair, respectively.

Offices, Insurance Top Commercial Servicing Conversations, Panel Says

NEW ORLEANS–Looking at servicing in the current commercial market, offices and insurance issues are top of mind. That’s per a panel at the Mortgage Bankers Association Commercial/Multifamily Finance Servicing and Technology Conference, here, May 20.

MBA Opens Doors Foundation Welcomes M&T Realty Capital Corp’s Christine Chandler and Mphasis Digital Risk’s Jeffrey C. Taylor to Board of Directors

The MBA Opens Doors Foundation yesterday welcomed Christine Chandler, MBA’s 2024 Vice Chair and Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at M&T Realty Capital Corporation, and Jeffrey C. Taylor, Founder & Managing Director at Mphasis Digital Risk, to its Board of Directors.

#MBACMST23: Facing up to Office Sector Challenges

CHICAGO–The office sector faces major challenges, but servicers and asset managers can handle them, panelists said here at the MBA Commercial/Multifamily Finance Servicing and Technology Conference.

Market Musings with M&T Realty Capital Corp.’s Christine Chandler

Christine R. Chandler is Chief Credit Officer and Chief Operating Officer for M&T Realty Capital Corp., Baltimore. She is responsible for making credit decisions for MTRCC’s Multifamily and Healthcare transactions underwritten in the Agency and FHA platforms as well as managing the company operations.