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Volume 23 Issue 44

Tuesday, March 05, 2024

ICE Mortgage Monitor: 2023 Saw Three-Decade Low in Originations

Intercontinental Exchange Inc., Atlanta, released its Mortgage Monitor report for March, featuring some full-year 2023 insights. Among those, the report recorded only 4.3 million mortgages as originated in 2023, the lowest since ICE began tracking the data 30 years ago.

Seyfarth Shaw: CRE Industry Optimistic for 2024

Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, released its Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey, finding 83% of commercial real estate executives have a buoyant outlook for the sector this year.

Fannie Mae Panel Upgrades Home Price Growth Outlook

A panel of housing experts expects annual national home price growth of 3.8% this year and 3.4% in 2025, according to the Q1 2024 Fannie Mae Home Price Expectations Survey.

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TOP NATIONAL NEWS

MBA Gives Backing to Loan Repurchase Efforts
Multifamily’s Bounce Back Will Be Sharpest in These Markets
Why It’s Not All Doom and Gloom for Commercial Real Estate
Miami-Dade is Latest County to Go into Debt to Try to Do What its Private Sector Won’t: Build Houses
Watch Out for ‘Gotcha’ Clauses in Homebuyer Representation Contracts
Florida’s Housing Market Is in Trouble

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Quote: March 5, 2024

"Since 1995, only two quarters have seen fewer than 1 million first lien mortgages originated. The first was Q1 2023, and Q4 the second." -- Andy Walden, ICE Vice President of Enterprise Research Strategy.

Dealmaker: X-Caliber Funding, CastleGreen Finance Complete $122M Refinance for Fairmont Breakers Long Beach Hotel

X-Caliber Funding and CastleGreen Finance, an X-Caliber affiliate that provides capital through Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, provided $122 million to refinance Long Beach, California’s Fairmont Breakers Hotel & Spa.

March 04, 2024

MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Average UPB of Repurchased/Indemnified Loans

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MBA Research recently analyzed repurchase and indemnification volume over a five-year period from the third quarter of 2018 through the third quarter of 2023.

March 06, 2024

MBA NewsLink Q&A–Miki Adams of CBC Mortgage Agency Looks Back and Ahead at Interest Rates

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MBA NewsLink recently interviewed Miki Adams, president of CBC Mortgage Agency, a nationally chartered housing finance agency and source of down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, about interest rates and more.

March 04, 2024

Carmine Cacciavillani from Blue Sage Solutions: How a Bridge in the Cloud Creates Endless Opportunities

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One of the most interesting paradoxes is the Mobius strip, a two-dimensional shape made by taking a strip of paper, twisting one end 180 degrees, and taping the ends together, forming one continuous surface.

March 04, 2024

Industry Briefs March 5, 2024

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Industry news from ACES Quality Management, Matic, Truv, Dark Matter Technologies, Paradatec, LoanLogics, BaseCap Analytics and Calque.

March 04, 2024

Affordable Housing Insights: Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing Solutions March 5

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Join us on March 5 to learn more about the critical role of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in fostering sustainable affordable housing solutions.

March 04, 2024

People in the News, March 5, 2024

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Personnel news from Fannie Mae, Xactus, Cenlar, Click n' Close and Westcor Land Title Insurance Co.

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