MBA Advocacy Update Apr. 12, 2021

On Friday, the Biden administration released the top-line framework for the President’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal. On Monday, MBA sent a letter to the CFPB in response to its proposal to delay the mandatory compliance date for the new General QM rule. And this week, MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, penned an op-ed highlighting the industry’s efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Week Ahead—Apr. 12, 2021

MBA this week releases its weekly Forbearance & Call Volume Survey this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. ET; its Weekly Applications Survey on Wednesday, Apr. 14 (7:00 a.m. ET); and its monthly Builder Applications Survey on Thursday, Apr. 15.

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“The worst of the top-line declines are now behind us. We are beginning to see green shoots of a recovery in air travel data, booking patterns and revenue per available room.”
–Rachael Rothman, Head of Hotels Research & Data Analytics with CBRE, Dallas.

Micro Trends: Conversation with JLL on Growth in Life Sciences Real Estate

Interest in life sciences real estate has jumped during the current public health crisis. MBA NewsLink interviewed JLL Executive Director of U.S. Life Sciences Markets Travis McCready, Managing Director Zach Bowyer and Senior Vice President Erik Hill about the sector.

Jim Cameron of STRATMOR Group: Disruptions to Productivity and Staffing to Impact ‘New Normal’

Jim Cameron is a senior partner with STRATMOR Group, a mortgage advisory firm, where he specializes in benchmarking and performance measurement, strategic planning and managing STRATMOR’s workshop program. He has 30 years of leadership experience in the mortgage industry and was instrumental in working with the MBA to develop the industry-standard benchmarking program known as the MBA and STRATMOR Peer Group Roundtables (“PGR”) Program.

People in the News Apr. 12, 2021

Greystone, New York, announced Imran Ahmed joined the firm as a Senior Managing Director, responsible for expanding Greystone’s corporate finance activities, including development of global corporate and investment banking and institutional capital relationships.