Mid-America Apartment Communities, a Memphis, Tenn.-based multifamily real estate investment trust, has set up a joint venture fund to invest $500 million in multifamily properties over the next three years.The REIT reports that the joint venture is with "institutional capital." Investments will be targeted in Mid-America's Sunbelt markets, with the focus being on properties with "redevelopment upside offering value creation opportunity through capital improvements, operating enhancements and restructuring in-place financing." The REIT expects to put in about $60 million of equity into the investments.
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Ohio-based Liberty Home Mortgage joins several companies who started using a more modernized FICO credit score for nonconforming mortgage originations recently.
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The CFPB has dissolved the Office of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending and eliminated the job of associate director in a move that impacts how it designates nonbanks for supervision.
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The plan that the Federal Housing Finance Agency floated calls for Freddie Mac to actively invest in some new closed-end seconds as cash-out refinancing subsides.
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The push comes amid what one expert highlighted as lax funding efforts for two Department of Housing and Urban Development grant programs.
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Conventional lending drove volumes higher, particularly in the purchase market, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
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Net charge-offs at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank increased by more than 80% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. BofA executives say that the rising losses were in line with the bank's risk appetite.
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