Tom Lamalfa: October 2020 Survey Scorecard

In early October I surveyed 33 senior executives from 33 separate mortgage companies about a wide array of issues and topics both germane and important to the mortgage banking industry. It was the 24th time such a survey was conducted by me since 2008.

CRE Executives Becoming Bearish

Commercial real estate executives are growing “bearish” about the U.S. CRE market, DLA Piper’s Global Real Estate State of the Market Survey reported yesterday.

ATTOM: ‘Zombie’ Properties Diminish Amid Foreclosure Moratorium

ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, Calif., reported 200,065 properties in the process of foreclosure in the fourth quarter, down by 7.3 percent from the third quarter. Of those, then number sitting empty—also known as “zombie” foreclosures, fell by 4.4 percent to 7,612.