The Week Ahead, Feb. 21, 2023: MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo Underway

ORLANDO—Good morning and happy Tuesday! MBA NewsLink comes to you this week from sunny, warm Orlando for the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo, which runs through Friday, Feb. 24.

MBA NewsLink and MBA Servicing NewsLink will provide on-site coverage. For more information, click here.

But back in Washington, things are busy, too. Here’s what else is happening this week:

MBA Reports. We kick things off immediately with the monthly MBA Loan Monitoring Survey (formerly the MBA Forbearance & Call Volume Report), which comes out today (Tuesday, Feb. 21). MBA Vice President of Industry Analysis Marina Walsh, CMB, provides commentary and analysis.

On Wednesday, Feb. 22, MBA releases its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, with commentary and analysis from MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist Joel Kan.

And on Thursday, Feb. 23, MBA releases its monthly Purchase Applications Payment Index, with commentary and analysis from MBA Associate Vice President of Housing Economics Edward Seiler.

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 continue with the monthly parade of housing reports. Those MBA NewsLink will cover are in italics:

Tuesday: MBA Loan Monitoring Survey; Existing Home Sales; Philadelphia Fed Non-Manufacturing Suvrey

Wednesday: MBA Weekly Applications Survey

Thursday: MBA Purchase Applications Payment Index; Initial Claims; Gross Domestic Product

Friday: New Residential Sales; Personal Income/PCE Deflator; University of Michigan Consumer Survey (final)

Congress. The House and Senate are in recess this week and will return to Washington on Mar. 27

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. 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!