Multifamily

The GSE recently transferred $166 million portion of risk on $11.1 billion of loans via contracts with seven reinsurers and insurers; it plans to come to market two or three time a year going forward.

As the demand for home rentals continues to rise, regulatory burdens could decrease the multifamily housing supply and drive up costs, witnesses said at a congressional hearing.

A heavily challenged ballot measure in a Denver suburb that aims to place strict limits on new residential construction got a breath of a life from a judge this week, but not in time for it to be placed on the Nov. 6 ballot.

A 75-year-old Florida real estate developer was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he lied to banks to keep money flowing so he wasn't forced to scuttle an oceanfront hotel and condominium in Vero Beach.

Seattle is building housing like never before, while housing growth has slowed significantly in the suburbs.

New-home construction rose less than forecast in July amid a rebound in groundbreaking for single-family and multifamily houses, indicating the industry was trying to regain its footing at the start of the second half.

With values on multifamily properties soaring, some building owners are using aggressive tactics to push out existing tenants to make room for higher-earning ones. That’s raising questions about whether their lenders are abetting this behavior.

Redwood Trust has priced a new stock offering that is aimed at increasing funding to new initiatives like investments in the single-family rental and multifamily sectors as well as routine business.

New-home groundbreaking and permits fell in June to the slowest pace in nine months, as higher mortgage rates and elevated costs for labor and materials pinch the housing market.

Strong demand for business and multifamily loans, combined with double-digit growth in wealth management revenues, more than offset rising expenses.

New-home construction rose more than projected in May to the fastest pace in more than a decade while permits cooled for a second month, indicating mixed progress in the supply-constrained housing market.

Regulation imposed by all levels of government accounts for 32% of multifamily development costs, according to the National Association of Home Builders and the National Multifamily Housing Council.

Two South Korean financial firms have bought $100 million of debt on a New Jersey residential building that's part-owned by the family of Jared Kushner.

Commercial and multifamily loan originations may not be up by much from a year ago, but borrowing and lending behaviors were drastically different in the first quarter.

New-home construction declined in April as fewer starts of apartment projects outweighed a modest improvement in single-family structures, government figures showed Wednesday.

March's residential construction spending declined by 3.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis from February, but was virtually flat for new single-family properties, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The corner of Ninth and East Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia is no stranger to crowds. A developer's proposal to build three rowhouses and 21 apartments atop 5,300 square feet of new commercial space just steps from the busy intersection could only make it worse.

Plans for a West Palm Beach, Fla. development with micro-condominiums, affordable apartments, offices, a grocery and a park, have collapsed over city commissioner concerns the developer couldn't make it happen.

New-home construction rose by more than forecast in March on a rebound in multifamily starts, giving a boost to first-quarter economic growth.

Here's some good news for New York City apartment hunters: Manhattan rents dropped 3.8% in March from a year earlier, the most since 2011.