MBA Chart of the Week: Climate, Sustainability and Real Estate Finance

With Earth Day happening this month, it seems an opportune time to discuss the intersection of climate/sustainability issues and real estate finance. MBA has been leading on these issues for more than half a decade, helping members through our work related to research, policy and practice.

MBA Chart of the Week: Goods and Services Inflation

The week’s news has been around the Consumer Price Index (CPI) release showing that inflation was hotter than expected in March, which is likely to delay the Federal Reserve’s first rate cut in 2024 and contributed to a significant spike in the 10-year Treasury yield to over 4.5%.

MBA Chart of the Week: Job Openings for Selected Industries

Last week Fed Chair Jay Powell testified to Congress that as “labor market tightness has eased and progress on inflation has continued, the risks to achieving our employment and inflation goals have been moving into better balance.”

MBA Chart of the Week: Delinquency Rates by Loan Type

According to the latest MBA National Delinquency Survey (NDS), the overall delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one‐to‐four‐unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.88% of all loans outstanding at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023.

MBA Chart of the Week: Top 10 Ginnie Mae Servicers

This week’s MBA Chart of the Week highlights analysis by Recursion, a big data mortgage analytics firm, that ranks the 10 largest Ginnie servicers by servicing book size ($UPB).