HousingWire, Jan. 21, 2021In a HousingWire Daily interview, Lisa Haynes, the Mortgage Bankers Association chief financial officer and chief diversity and inclusion officer, joins HousingWire Digital Media Manager Alcynna Lloyd …
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MBA Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color Continues Feb. 2 with ‘Together We Rise’
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s popular three-part virtual series, Voices: Courageous Conversations with Women of Color, concludes on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with “Together We Rise.”

Hedge Funds’ Bets on Fannie and Freddie Cause Pain
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 21, 2021–Juliet Chung, Andrew Ackerman (subscription)The end of the Trump administration is the end of the best hope for hedge-fund investors in a long and painful …

MBA, Trade Groups Ask Biden to Create $25 Billion Housing Assistance Fund
The Mortgage Bankers Association and nearly 40 industry trade groups, community organizations and real estate businesses yesterday asked President Joseph Biden Jr. to include a $25 billion Housing Assistance Fund as part of the Administration’s proposed $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package.

HUD Extends FHA Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium through Mar. 31
HUD yesterday extended the moratorium on FHA single-family foreclosures and evictions through Mar. 31.

Global CRE Investment Could Surge in Second-Half 2021
Investors are largely optimistic about a commercial real estate market rebound later this year, said Colliers International, Toronto.

Dealmaker: Walker & Dunlop Structures $175M for Mixed-Use, Multifamily
Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., structured $175.1 million in financing for a New Orleans adaptive-reuse development and three Utah multifamily properties.

Don’t Let COVID Crisis Mask Affordable Housing Opportunity
HousingWire, Jan. 20, 2021–John BeachamAs the U.S. rushes to inoculate the current global health crisis, the real estate and mortgage finance industries are facing their second wave of significant industry …

SFR Rebound: Single-Family Rent Growth Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Rates
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said single-family rent growth reached 3.7 percent in November, the highest annual growth seen since June 2016.

Commercial Real Estate Debt Sustained by Central Bank Bond Buying
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 20, 2021–Anna Hirtenstein (subscription)Europe’s downtown office buildings are empty, and malls and main streets are deserted, yet the biggest landlords are staying afloat during the COVID-19 …