"Markets continued to digest the impact of slowing inflation and potential rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, helping mortgage rates to stay at levels close to the lowest since mid-2023." --Joel Kan, MBA’s Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist

With the logjam in the commercial real estate transaction market top of mind for many, loan servicing and asset management professionals entered the new year with a fresh set of opportunities and challenges defined not by a flood of new originations but the expectation of a growing supply of troubled loans.