Multifamily housing
Commercial Real Estate

Multifamily housing construction starts boom

The Census Bureau’s new residential construction report for April showed continued high levels of multifamily housing construction permit issuance and unit starts, but unit completions declined, resulting in another increase in the number of units under construction. Note […]

Fannie Mae
Loan Markets

Fannie Mae forecasts a slowing economy

Fannie Mae’s latest economic forecast calls for lower GDP growth and higher inflation in 2022 than in earlier forecasts. Their new housing forecast predicts multifamily housing starts to be higher in 2022 but lower in […]

Rental Assistance
U.S. Market

Emergency Rental Assistance update

The latest report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury states that, as of the end of March, 74 percent of the $25 billion in emergency rental assistance funds allocated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 had […]

Mortgage
Loan Markets

Strong multifamily mortgage originations in Q1

A report from the Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) says that multifamily mortgages originations in Q1 were up sharply on a year-over-year basis. Tracking multifamily mortgage originations The first chart, below, shows the quarterly origination volume indices since […]

Home Sales
Home Values

Home Sales Decline In April

Redfin reports soaring mortgage rates cause sales drop. The housing market saw a 8% year-over-year decline in home sales, the biggest drop since June 2020, which allowed white-hot home-price growth to cool slightly, reports online […]