Tag: multifamily lending
MBA survey shows growth for multifamily mortgages in Q1
Last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Q1 2018 quarterly survey of commercial/multifamily mortgage bankers originations. The report shows that originations of...
Multifamily mortgage market growth continues
The Mortgage Banker's Association (MBA) released a report Tuesday on the commercial and multifamily mortgage markets. It showed that the level of multifamily mortgage...
Three-comma deal
Willy Walker, Walker & Dunlop Chairman and CEO, commented, “It is a true honor to have been selected by Greystar to finance the largest...
Multifamily construction loans are harder to find
“We are still finding attractive options for good projects where the economics pencil,” says Jeff Sause, director with capital services provider HFF. “There is...
Rebuilding housing on a strong foundation
The conservatorship used taxpayer money to shore up these part-public, part-private entities, which accounted for roughly two-thirds of both single-family and multifamily mortgage markets....
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The commercial banks that make most construction loans to apartment developers are beginning to be more careful. That’s because of worries about the many...
Multifamily lending starting to level off
“The forecast anticipates continued strength and growth,” says Jamie Woodwell, vice president for the research and economics group at MBA. That’s still going to be...
Cracks in the multifamily narrative
Rising rents and asset values are reinforcing the industry’s favored narrative: younger Americans will remain enamored of the flexibility of renting and the enticements...
A house is not a credit card
Last summer, that same trump card stopped a bipartisan bill to reform the mortgage market, more than six years after Fannie Mae and Freddie...
Multifamily investment bright while household formation remains dim
Even as construction of new apartment buildings hit the highest monthly construction pace since the beginning of 2006, the latest absorption rates for unsubsidized,...
Why renters are still driving America’s building boom
As America's housing market slowly heals, good news is pouring in from homebuilders: They're building more; they're hiring more workers; they're building bigger houses. Still,...
Are lenders really back?
"That's because in the last four months the market has taken a 180 and there's a ton of capital and deals are starting to...
