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MBA: 2020 Commercial, Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations Fall to $441.5 Billion
Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers closed $441.5 billion in loans in 2020, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2020 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Annual Origination Volume Summation reported, nearly 26 percent lower than the record $601 billion reported in 2019.
Nick Volpe: A Brief History of Defects; Q3 2020’s Loan Quality Performance Sets Stage for Areas of Concern in 2021
Given the necessary delay that must precede the analysis of post-closing data, it is easy to forget the significance of these findings. However, mistakes made in the past often do not remain so, especially when those mistakes go unaddressed. Thus, lenders have a great deal to learn from their post-closing quality control analyses, even more so given the market disruptions and macroeconomic impact of COVID-19.
MBA Seeks Nominations to Serve on COMBOG
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.
MBA: 2020 IMB Production Volumes, Profits Hit Record-Highs
Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks made an average profit of $4,202 on each loan they originated in 2020, up from $1,470 per loan in 2019, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday
MBA Weekly Applications Survey Apr. 14, 2021: 5th Straight Week of Declines
Mortgage applications again fell across the board from one week earlier, marking the fifth consecutive week of declines, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 9.
Bob Mansur, CMB, AMP: Are Your LOs Behaving the Way You Expect?
The first article of this series addressed the use of behavioral activities as enabling goals. Their purpose: to help LOs who were struggling to reach the production goals to which you and they had agreed. This follow-up piece looks at management’s additional actions to consistently communicate about those observable activity goals.
Rob Wilson: Relationships Need to be Transformational, Not Transactional
The mortgage business is inherently transactional and cyclical, with ever-changing rates, high-highs and low-lows, and this trend is not expected to change any time soon. The circumstances due to the pandemic mirror those of the economic downturn in 2008, and in both situations, it was crucial to have formed two-way partnerships with others in the industry who had a vested interest in mutual success and propelling both businesses forward.
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.
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“Commercial and multifamily borrowing and lending in 2020 fell by a quarter from 2019’s record year, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the economy and created increased uncertainty. The property types most impacted by the pandemic–lodging and retail–saw the largest declines in originations, while those in which investors and lenders had the greatest confidence, particularly multifamily, held up better.”
–MBA Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Research Jamie Woodwell.