The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG) Nominating Committee seeks members’ recommendations for individuals to serve on the Board beginning this October in the Investor, Lender, Mortgage Banker and Servicer categories.
Category: News and Trends
MBA Chart of the Week: New Home Sales, Single-Family Housing Starts
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week focuses on newly built homes, as measured by new home sales and single-family housing starts.
Dealmaker: Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $750M for Bay-Area Office Campus
Cushman & Wakefield, New York, arranged $750 million to refinance Burlingame Point, a Class A office, R&D and life sciences campus on the San Francisco peninsula.
March Housing Starts Post at Highest Rate in 15 Years
Housing starts recovered from a sluggish February to its highest rate since 2006 in March, HUD and the Census Bureau reported Friday.
Trepp: 4Q Bank CRE Loan Data Show ‘Elevated Distress’
The U.S. economy is well into its recovery from the pandemic recession, but Trepp LLC, New York, noted bank commercial real estate loans indicated “elevated distress” in the fourth quarter.
Sponsored Content from Calyx: Non-QM–The Big Pause, the New Rules and What’s Ahead
LoanScorecard’s Managing Director, Raj Parekh, looks at the new rules and what’s in store for non-QM.
10 Companies Now MISMO RON-Certified
MISMO®, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, today announced that 10 companies have successfully completed MISMO RON certification. Black Knight and Stavvy join eight previously certified companies.
The Week Ahead—Apr. 19, 2021
Good morning! The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Spring Conference & Expo is upon us!
(The New Normal) Garth Graham: Shifting Teams at the Speed of a Pandemic
Between stay-at-home orders, historical levels of refinance activity and the big increase in forbearance requests, mortgage originators and servicers spent the past year continually creating and re-creating ways to get things done. Here’s some of the things we saw.
Hassan Rashid: From Promise to Reality: Achieve Digital Transformation with Automation
The financial services industry as a whole continues to evolve at a rapid pace, driven by customer expectations, advancements in technology, and heightened competition from incumbents and new entrants. Lenders that seize this opportunity will not only survive, but ultimately thrive well into the future. In contrast, lenders content on simply surviving, taking more of a “wait-and-see” approach, may quickly become irrelevant.