The annual rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, exceeded wage growth in April and May. The last time this happened was during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
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MBA Chart of the Week: Commercial, Multifamily Interest Rates
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week examines how the current rate environment is feeding into commercial and multifamily lending rates.
Chart of the Week: Q1 2026 IMB Total Loan Production Expense by Region
For this Chart of the Week, we display the average total loan production expense – commissions, compensation, occupancy, equipment, corporate allocations, and other production expenses across geographic regions.
MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Total Production Expense
For this week’s Chart of the Week, we compare total loan production expense for the companies in the top 20% for net production income (in basis points) versus the companies in the bottom 20% over the past 18 years.
MBA Chart of the Week: Consumer Price Index Inflation
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.
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.