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 […]

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 […]

Commercial and Multifamily Lending Surged in Q1
Commercial Real Estate

Commercial and Multifamily Lending Surged in Q1

The volume of commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations jumped 72 percent in the first quarter of 2022 compared to a year earlier. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said lenders reported solid increases in all categories of that lending […]