MBA News Dec. 8 2022

Today in MBA News: MBA Independent Mortgage Bankers Conference; MBA Education Webinar, Ensuring HMDA Data Integrity and Common Reporting Issues; MBA Webinar Available: Inflation, Interest Rate, Cap Rates & Values: What Do We Really Know?; MBA Future Leaders Program. To read more, click on today’s MBA News headline.

CMBS Sector Outlook: Continued Uncertainty Going into 2023

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York, just released its CMBS 2023 Sector Outlook, which looks at key credit trends from 2022 and forecasts U.S. issuance activity for the new year. MBA NewsLink interviewed KBRA’s Larry Kay and Andrew Foster to get their insights on the current lending environment and property fundamentals as well as factors that may affect overall property performance in 2023.

Dawar Alimi of Lender Price on Opportunities in a Challenging Environment

Dawar Alimi is CEO and Co-Founder of Lender Price, Pasadena, Calif., a provider of cloud-native pricing technology to the lending space. He has more than two decades of mortgage industry expertise, during which he has built industry-leading technology and founded several companies.

Today’s Top National News Dec. 8 2022

Here’s a summary of Top National News Items from major news sites and industry trade publications. To get started, click on the headline above:

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“Credit availability increased slightly in November, the first increase in nine months, as lenders continued to navigate a challenging environment brought on by higher rates and a much slower housing market.”
–Joel Kan, MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist.

MBA Weekly Survey Dec. 7, 2022: Applications Down 2nd Straight Week

Mortgage applications fell by nearly 2 percent last week, although falling interest rates sparked an uptick in refinance applications, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday in its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 2.