MBA Newslinks Archive
MBA NewsLink Tuesday Sept. 13, 2022
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“The housing market is reeling from the hit to affordability from the spike in mortgage rates and much higher home prices. While these data don’t promise any near-term relief on rates, the strong job market will continue to support housing demand as household incomes continue to grow at a brisk pace.”
–MBA Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni.
MBA Advocacy Update Sept. 6 2022
On Wednesday, FHFA announced that it would begin a comprehensive review of the Federal Home Loan Bank System this fall. And HousingWire published a guest column penned by MBA’s Mike Fratantoni, Marina Walsh, CMB, and Joel Kan that looks at industry employment levels in the current and forecasted mortgage market environment.
MBA Chart of the Week: Quarterly NCREIF Property Returns
The forward path of inflation remains a topic of great debate and conjecture. How that path plays into the relative benefits of different investment options – including commercial real estate and other real assets – will give us even more insights into the relationship.
Will Robinson of Encapture on How Innovative Banks Use Machine Learning to Reduce Risk
Will Robinson is the CEO of Encapture, Dallas, a high-growth SaaS platform that helps banks automatically extract important information from documents. Launched 20 years ago, Encapture helps companies save time and money by using machine learning to process large amounts of data.