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MBA Survey: Just 13% of Commercial/Multifamily Debt Set to Mature This Year
LAS VEGAS--Volume of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt maturing in 2010 and 2011 is relatively low, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported yesterday.
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Industry News
MBA Study: Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Originations Increase in Fourth Quarter
LAS VEGAS--Fourth quarter commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations increased by 12 percent over the same period last year and by 15 percent from the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported this morning in its Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations.
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Wells Fargo/Wachovia Top MBA Year-End Commercial/Multifamily Servicer Rankings
LAS VEGAS--Wells Fargo/Wachovia Bank, with $473.8 billion in U.S. master and primary servicing, led all firms in the Mortgage Bankers Association's year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicers.
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COMBOG Chair Stresses Structural Improvements
LAS VEGAS--Dave Roberts, CMB, chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association's Commercial/Multifamily Board of Governors, has been leading COMBOG into different territory since taking over last fall--and for good reasons.
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Credit Tenants Highlight Sale-Leaseback Underwriting
Sidney Domb, president of United Trust Fund, Miami, said his firm looks at credit tenants above real estate location or value in underwriting sale leasebacks.
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Trends
CRE Bottom Remains Uneven
Transaction volume continued to decline in office and industrial sectors during the fourth quarter, but apartment and retail sectors showed a turnaround, a fourth quarter report said.
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Change in FHA Multifamily 'Inevitable'
Multifamily market stress will bring "inevitable" changes to FHA's market-rate multifamily program, said Shekar Narasimhan, managing partner at Beekman Advisors, McLean, Va.
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DealMaker
HFF Arranges More Than $175B in Northeast, Texas
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP secured more than $175 million financing office and retail properties in Massachusetts and Texas and a shopping center in New York.
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MBA News
MBA Appoints Moritz as AVP/Multifamily
The Mortgage Bankers Association appointed Douglas Moritz as associate vice president of multifamily. He will join MBA's Commercial/Multifamily team to coordinate policy positions on multifamily issues and oversee most multifamily activities of MBA including interaction with members and representation before HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other groups affecting multifamily housing.
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CampusMBA Multifamily Property Inspection Workshop Mar. 9-11
Register for CampusMBA's popular Multifamily Property Inspection Workshop, taking place March 9-11 in Washington, D.C.
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Tomorrow at CREF
LAS VEGAS--The Mortgage Bankers Association's Commercial Real Estate Finance/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo 2010 continues tomorrow with a full slate of events.
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"The trend shows stability coming back to the market, but the pick-up in volumes really indicates just how low origination levels had fallen."
--MBA Vice President of Commercial Real Estate Research Jamie Woodwell, on commercial/multifamily loan origination volume in the fourth quarter.
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