Andrew Foster: CMBS Market Musings

Taken together, the analysis from industry thought leaders indicates that CMBS will continue to have challenges with existing loans through 2021 as new issuance remains robust for agency MBS and at a tepid pace for conduit transactions. Challenges with maturing loans are starting as well; however, 2022 will bring a major wave of those loans.

Longer-Term Challenges to Multifamily Risk Outlook Emerge

he multifamily sector made it through the first half of the year with less turmoil as some anticipated. But the pandemic could create longer-term challenges for the sector, said Phoenix American, San Rafael, Calif.

CFPB Extends Comment Period on ECOA/Reg B RFI to Dec. 1

Bowing to requests by the Mortgage Bankers Association and other industry trade groups, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday said it will provide an additional 60 days for public comment on its Request for Information on expanding access to credit through Regulation B, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

ATTOM: Refis Make Up 2/3 of 2nd Quarter Loans, Highest Level in 7 Years

ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, Calif., released its second-quarter U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, showing 1.69 million refinance mortgages secured by residential properties (1 to 4 units) originated, up nearly 50 percent from the prior quarter and more than 100 percent from a year ago, to the highest level in seven years.

TransUnion: Consumer Credit Market Withstands Coronavirus Challenges

TransUnion, Chicago, reported the total percentage of accounts in “financial hardship” status dropped during July for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and personal loans – marking the first such decrease since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

People in the News Aug. 20, 2020

JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group, New York named Kevin Davis a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s Americas Hotels & Hospitality Group. He will head the debt capital markets efforts for the Americas business and collaboration between the firm’s Hotels & Hospitality business and JLL’s Capital Markets Group, specifically the loan sales and financing teams.