The Week Ahead, Feb. 13, 2023: Two Big Weeks of MBA Conferences, Reports

SAN DIEGO—Good morning and happy Monday! MBA NewsLink is on the road for the next two weeks, covering two of the biggest real estate finance conferences of the new year.

This week, NewsLink is here covering the MBA Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo—CREF23—which runs through Wednesday, Feb. 15. Keynote speakers include Roger Ferguson, President and CEO of TIAA and former Federal Reserve Vice Chair; Sandra Thompson, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency; and Julia Gordon, HUD Assistant Secretary and FHA Commissioner.

For more information, click here.

Next week—after the Presidents Day holiday (Monday, Feb. 20)—we’re off to Orlando for the MBA Servicing MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo, Orlando, which runs Feb. 21-24. NewsLink and MBA Servicing NewsLink will provide on-site coverage. For more information, click here.

Speaking of Presidents Day—MBA offices will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20 in observance and MBA NewsLink will not publish. On behalf of MBA officers and staff, have a safe and happy holiday.

Now, let’s get to the rest of this week’s business:

MBA Reports. Look for several MBA reports this week from CREF23 in today’s MBA NewsLink, including the MBA Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Banker Originations and the MBA 2022 Year-End Commercial/Multifamily Servicer Rankings.

Also from CREF this week: the MBA 2023 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Forecast; and the MBA 2022 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Survey of Loan Maturity Volumes.

Also this week, MBA will release its Weekly Applications Survey (Wednesday); its quarterly National Delinquency Survey (Thursday); and its monthly Builder Applications Survey (Friday). Whew!

And if you haven’t yet checked out the MBA State of the Association, featuring a look back at key issues affecting the real estate finance industry in 2022 and the economic and policy outlook for 2023, please do so by clicking the link above.

Other Economic Reports. We begin a busy two-week period of monthly housing reports. Here are this week’s housing and economic reports; those MBA NewsLink will cover are in italics:

Monday: MBA Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Banker Originations; MBA 2022 Year-End Commercial/Multifamily Servicer Rankings

Tuesday: Consumer Price Index; MBA 2023 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Forecast; MBA 2022 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Survey of Loan Maturity Volumes

Wednesday: MBA Weekly Applications Survey; National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index; Advance Retail Sales; Empire State Manufacturing Survey; Industrial Production/Capacity Utilization; Business Inventories

Thursday: MBA 4th Quarter National Delinquency Survey; Initial Claims; New Residential Construction; Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey

Friday: MBA Builder Applications Survey; Imports/Exports

Congress. The Senate Banking Committee holds a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 14 on “Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets.” The hearing begins at 10:00 a.m. ET in Dirksen Senate Office Building 538 and can be accessed online here.

The House Financial Services Committee has no hearings scheduled this week.

For more information about the House and Senate, visit www.house.gov and www.senate.gov, respectively. For more information about upcoming hearings in the Senate Banking Committee, click https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings. For more information about upcoming hearings in the House Financial Services Committee, click https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/?EventTypeID=577&Congress=117.

And finally, MBA Conferences. Here’s a list of upcoming MBA conferences:

Feb. 12-15: CREF 2023, San Diego. For more information, click here.

Feb. 21-24: MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo, Orlando. For more information, click here.

Mar. 5-8: MBA Mid-Winter Housing Finance Conference, Avon, Colo. For more information, click here.

Mar. 7: mPact Summit, Plano, Texas. For more information, click here.

Apr. 17-18: MBA State & Local Workshop, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.

Apr. 18-19: MBA National Advocacy Conference, Washington, D.C. Fore more information, click here.

Apr. 26-27: MBA Commercial/Multifamily Human Resources Roundtable 2023. For more information, click here.

May 7-10: MBA Legal Issues & Regulatory Compliance Conference, Austin, Texas. For more information, click here.

May 9-12: MBA Commercial/Multifamily Housing Servicing and Technology Conference, Chicago. For more information, click here.

May 21-24: MBA Secondary and Capital Markets Conference & Expo, New York. For more information, click here.

June 4-7: MBA Chairman’s Conference, Manalapan, Fla. For more information, click here.

June 5-8: MISMO Spring Summit, Portland, Ore. For more information, click here.

Sept. 10-12: MBA Regulatory Compliance Conference, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.

Sept. 11-13: MBA Risk Management, QA and Fraud Prevention Forum, Phoenix. For more information, click here.

Oct. 14: mPowering You: MBA’s Summit For Women in Real Estate Finance, Philadelphia. For more information, click here.

Oct. 15-18: MBA Annual Convention & Expo, Philadelphia. For more information, click here.

For more information, click the links above or visit https://www.mba.org/conferences-and-education/conferences-and-meetings.

For the most up-to-date information regarding legislative activity at the state and local level, visit the MBA State Legislative Database here.

For information about MBA Education events, visit http://www.mbaeducation.org.  

For information about the National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA), visit https://www.nammba.org/.

Enjoy the week and the long holiday weekend.