The Mortgage Bankers Association announced members of its 2022 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors.
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Dealmaker: Avison Young Closes $15M Office Park Sale
Avison Young’s Florida Capital Markets Group closed the $15.1 million sale of Central Corporate Center, a five-building office park in Orlando, Fla.
Mark P. Dangelo: 2022 C-Suite Agendas Meet New Realities
The challenges of the executing against traditional business prescriptions are many—at a minimum due to changes in strategy, personnel, convention, ecosystems, innovations, and cloud (maturity). The accepted top-down agenda setting management theory of academics and consultants constructed in silos of efficiency are being called into question.
mPowering You: Looking Ahead—Knowing Your Value and Asking for What You Want
SAN DIEGO—What is the “new normal” in the workplace?
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“We have to decide more broadly how we think about housing America. It has to be done on a global basis—cities suburbs, rural areas, tribal areas. We want to help people become homeowners, but we don’t want a repeat of what happened during the Great Recession—getting people into homes, only to see them lose those homes.”
–Teresa Bryce Bazemore, President & CEO of the San Francisco Federal Home Loan Bank.
Perspectives from the C-Suite: Executives Discuss Top Industry Issues
SAN DIEGO—There’s a lot going on with the mortgage industry right now—post-pandemic operations; regulatory changes; housing affordability; diversity, equity and inclusion. What better way to gain perspective on these issues than asking several top-level industry executives what they’re seeing?
Chris Meade of LenderClose: The Right Stuff–How the Right Technology Can Unlock Real Estate and Home Equity Lending
Chris Meade is Vice President of Client Relations of LenderClose, a fintech engaged in providing technology platforms to home equity and real estate lenders. With more than 10 years of experience in the technology industry, he seeks to build and enrich client relationships with a personable and user-centric approach.
Industry Briefs Oct. 22, 2021: Clarifire Partners with Freddie Mac on Streamlined Servicing Workouts
Clarifire, St. Petersburg, Fla., announced its CLARIFIRE workflow automation application has gone live with Resolve, Freddie Mac’s new integrated default management platform.
Rajesh Bhat of Roostify: When Will the Mortgage Industry be Truly Automated?
The mortgage industry has been moving towards automation, but still has a long and complex road ahead. Rajesh Bhat, Co-Founder and CEO of Roostify, offers his perspective on what steps lenders can take today to better prepare themselves for the journey, and the destination.
Brent Chandler of FormFree: the Business Case for Jumping on the Rent Payment History Bandwagon
The case for considering a mortgage loan applicant’s rent history is compelling. Limited credit history disqualifies many renters ― even those with great rent payment history — from homeownership, and multiple studies confirm that factoring in rent payment history typically increases credit scores.