The impact of the war in Iran and the disruption of shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed inflation to the forefront of economic concerns.
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Chart of the Week: New Home Inventory by Stage of Construction
While there was a shortage of single-family homes for sale due to underbuilding since the Great Recession, home builders increased production to meet the surge in demand that began 2020-2021, when mortgage rates were at historic lows.
Chart of the Week: Share of Total Cumulative Expenditures in the HAF Allocations
While pandemic‑era mortgage forbearance policies have received significant attention—and are now a permanent part of the loss‑mitigation waterfall for homeowners with federally backed mortgages—the Homeowner Assistance Fund program has been less well understood.
Chart of the Week: Commercial Real Estate Loan Maturity Volumes
Seventeen percent of the $5.0 trillion of outstanding commercial mortgages held by lenders and investors is scheduled to mature in 2026, a 9 percent decrease from the $957 billion that was scheduled to mature in 2025.
MBA Chart of the Week: The Steepening of the Yield Curve in Multifamily Lending
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week focuses on how the steepening yield curve is impacting multifamily lending.
Chart of the Week: Mortgage Rates, 10-Year Treasury and 30-10 Spread
In recent months, rate volatility has diminished, as the future course of monetary policy has become clearer and financial markets have been relatively calm. Last week’s announcement that the GSEs will increase their purchases of MBS brought the spread in further, and mortgage rates dropped further over the course of the week.
MBA Chart of the Week: Monthly Payroll Growth
The economy is growing, but unevenly, and employers certainly appear to be cautious about adding additional workers, as evidenced by the still very slow hiring rate in the recent JOLTS data.
Chart of the Week: Potential Trajectories of Multifamily Completions
Developers have been building many apartment units over the past several years. We expect the pace of development to slow in the years ahead, given declining fundamentals including falling rents, rising vacancies, and increasing delinquencies in the multifamily sector.
Chart of the Week–Seriously Delinquent Loans by Loan Type
According to the latest MBA National Delinquency Survey, the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.99% of all loans outstanding at the end of the third quarter.
MBA Chart of the Week: Refinance-Driven Growth in CRE Mortgage Originations
This week’s Chart of the Week focuses on trends in commercial and multifamily originations, which saw a 36 percent increase year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025.