MBA Chart of the Week: Annual Price Gains

Our Thanksgiving-themed Chart of the Week highlights the strength in turkey price growth in 2020, along with year-over-year price changes for a few other goods categories.

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“As we approach the end of an uncertain year, transaction pipelines are rebuilding globally and are offering a sense of optimism,” he said. “Investors will remain cautious and calculated in their approach while opportunistic and high-net-worth investors are poised to capitalize on market fragmentation while institutions remain critical of pricing.”
–Sean Coghlan, Head of Capital Markets Research with JLL, Chicago.

The Wonder Years: Freddie Mac’s K Series Turns 11

Freddie Mac’s K series quietly holds a place as an important, innovative multifamily market solution that has served borrowers, lenders, tenants and bondholders extremely well since its inception. Importantly for a government-sponsored entity, it also serves as a mechanism to transfer risk away from taxpayers.

Mark P. Dangelo: Lead, Follow or be Run Over

As we investigate 2021, one thing is certain, technology will be the innovation mantra pushing mortgage bankers and their high-touch processes into realities such as straight-through processing. These advanced technical innovations will challenge FSBO’s to think very, very differently.

MBA Chart of the Week: Annual Price Gains

Our Thanksgiving-themed Chart of the Week highlights the strength in turkey price growth in 2020, along with year-over-year price changes for a few other goods categories.

Revised 3Q GDP Unchanged at 33.1%

Meet the new gross domestic product—same as the old gross domestic product. The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Wednesday reported its second (revised) estimate of third quarter GDP was unchanged from its first estimate last month: in other words, after an unbelievably bad second quarter, the third quarter looks, in contrast, relatively brilliant.