Commercial lending

For commercial real estate investors, the good times may be over.

Changes to the tax code approved by Congress may set the stage for increased privatization of real estate investment trusts, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.

The price of the loans underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities increased modestly from October to November, according to DebtX.

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority issued more than $400 million of bonds in 2015 to finance mortgages at below-market interest rates for low- to moderate-income first-time homebuyers, according to authority officials.

Private real estate investors and community-based financial institutions have developed innovative ways to preserve affordable-housing units that were in danger of losing subsidies, according to a new report.

Commercial mortgages bundled into securities will keep seeing their underwriting standards deteriorate from this year into 2016, said JPMorgan analysts in a report Wednesday.

Morgan Stanley is readying a deal backed by 57 commercial mortgages.

There's been concern this year that commercial mortgage bonds are getting backed by loans that are increasingly risky.

A joint venture formed by a regional credit union trade group and a loan servicer has a simple mission: to help small credit unions that lack expertise in SBA lending jump into the booming 7(a) market.

The former chief executive of a Nebraska bank has been convicted by a federal jury for lying to investors and regulators about considerable losses tied to risky commercial real estate investments.

Loan originations for commercial and multifamily properties rose in the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported, backing up the group's projection from last month.

Banks have added so much capital in the past several years that they're better protected from declines in real estate values than they were before the financial crisis.

Shares of real estate investment trusts fell the most since August after an upbeat reading on U.S. jobs increased the odds the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year.

New rules proposed by international banking regulators would severely reduce, and possibly eliminate, banks' profitability in trading bonds that finance everything from home loans and apartment mortgages to auto loans and student debt, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Greystone has secured $88.6 million in financing to rehabilitate 20 multifamily properties for low-income residents in Tennessee.

Loan demand and conditions remained largely unchanged in the third quarter, with some easing of credit standards for consumer and auto loans, according to a survey of senior loan officers conducted by the Federal Reserve.

The Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday that it expects commercial and multifamily mortgage originations will increase year-over-year in 2016 by 6% to $485 billion.

BOK Financial reported a small drop in third-quarter profit, as a decline in the value of mortgage servicing rights offset loan and fee income growth.

New York Community Bancorp has agreed to buy Astoria Financial for about $2 billion in cash and stock, combining two of the largest New York-area banks to create an institution with about $64 billion in total assets.

Consumer demand for apartments continued to rise in the third quarter, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council.