The MBA Opens Doors Foundation announced a new alliance with The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa, Okla. The alliance is the Foundation’s first in Oklahoma and brings the number of children’s hospitals in its network to 13.
Category: News and Trends
Low-Income Renters Not Seeing Pandemic Savings
Rent growth has slowed during the pandemic, seemingly a boost for rent affordability. But more expensive areas tended to soften the most, giving little respite to renters in lower-priced areas, reported Zillow, Seattle.
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“MBA is concerned that limits on certain features of the Enterprises’ businesses, as well as the manner in which these limits are implemented, could cause unnecessary disruptions in the housing finance system.”
–MBA President & CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, in a Mar. 22 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and FHFA Director Mark Calabria.
Dealmaker: Eastern Union Closes $57M for Skilled-Care Facilities
Eastern Union, New York, secured a $57 million bridge financing package for two skilled-care facilities in Florida and two in Massachusetts. The facilities house 544 beds in total.
MBA Advocacy Update Mar. 23, 2021
On Monday, HUD finalized updated forms in the FHA Single-Family Condo approval process. On Tuesday, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held the first of what is expected to be a series of oversight hearings on housing policy this year. And on Thursday, MBA submitted feedback to FHA in response to ML 2021-05, which extends the foreclosure and eviction moratorium and expands the use of FHA’s COVID-19 Loss Mitigation options.
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“MBA is concerned that limits on certain features of the Enterprises’ businesses, as well as the manner in which these limits are implemented, could cause unnecessary disruptions in the housing finance system.”
–MBA President & CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, in a Mar. 22 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and FHFA Director Mark Calabria.
(Switching Gears) William Tessar: Investor Loans–Where the Smart Originator Will Be When Rates Go Up
With the benchmark 30-year fixed rate beginning to creep higher, however, we may start to face a new reality. That’s why smart originators are already thinking about how to generate business when the refi dust settles. And many are setting their sights on the real estate investor channel, because the opportunities for business growth are incredible.
MBA Chart of the Week: Percent of Originations by Median Income, Race/Ethnicity
We analyzed the 2019 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for the 30 largest metropolitan statistical areas to understand the distributions of first lien mortgage purchase originations by Area Median Income and by race/ethnicity.
Multifamily Market Musings: Q&A with MBA’s Sharon Walker
MBA NewsLink interviewed MBA Associate Vice President of Commercial/Multifamily Sharon Walker, who represents MBA members active in multifamily finance. She advocates on policy issues primarily related to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration and oversees numerous related committees, working groups, councils and events.
Michael Barone and Scott Weintraub: The New 1003 and Mortgage March Madness
Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness in the mortgage industry began very early in March and will last beyond the NCAA Championship game on April 5. By adjusting their application best practices and keeping a keen eye out for upsets for the next few months, lenders can stop upsets before they happen and avoid a busted bracket.