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As tenant advocates press for even more restrictive rules for rents and capital improvements to support asset values, look for the flow of investment into multifamily real estate to dwindle.
October 29 -
For the mortgage industry, the question of whether the Fed can control its target range for interest rates is crucial for managing volatility.
October 16 -
The Trump administration's thinking on housing is filled with conflicts and contradictions, a quilt work of at times irrational proposals that seem to be at odds with the real world of mortgage finance.
October 2 -
Whether Congress and/or the mortgage industry is able to untangle two opposing threads in the Trump administration's plans is anyone's guess.
September 12 -
Wide short-term swings in interest rates — and loan prepayments — that we've all witnessed have serious secondary effects on consumers, lenders, investors and also policymakers.
August 19 -
An important traditional tool of monetary policy has been diminished and may even become counterproductive in the future.
July 17 -
Will the runoff of MSRs leave a hole in the capital of the mortgage finance industry?
June 25 -
The assumption that conservatorship can end without significant changes in how the GSEs operate may be the most dangerous one of all.
June 4 -
The shift to nonbank lenders will put the breaks on non-qualified mortgage and home equity line of credit origination growth.
May 20 -
Recapitalizing the GSEs by cutting off returns to the government would essentially be buying the GSEs from the taxpayers with money that belongs to the taxpayers.
May 1
