Multifamily

The sector is not immune to the same economic instability that affects the single-family residential market, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is reducing the amount lenders can sell to a government-sponsored enterprise by $3 billion next year.

The Federal Housing Administration also announced it would incorporate similar borrower history into its underwriting beginning at the end of October.

A "Big 3" credit bureau is testing a direct data feed into a FICO score, and a top multifamily mortgage lender signed a multiyear contract with a high-profile fintech platform.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency wants to change some of the government-sponsored enterprises' targets in ways that could create more low-income rental units as higher costs squeeze tenants.

The nation's capital leads in live-work-play rental construction while interest rates are pricing out young potential buyers from the market.

Volumes set a record in 2021 and they've held up better than expected this year, but declines are forecasted for the sector some banks are using to partially offset single-family's slump.

These standalone properties make up nearly half of all rental units and the financing of them by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should reflected in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's affordable housing goal calculations, writes Manchester.

Renters are three times more likely to miss their scheduled payment than homeowners, an affiliate of the Mortgage Bankers Association found.

The sponsors got the portfolio through multiple acquisitions from May through October.

The transaction is also the first securitization for ACREC. The entity is also taking on multiple roles, acting as sponsor, issuer and collateral manager.

New York lawmakers extended the state’s eviction and foreclosure freeze through Jan. 15, providing relief to renters, homeowners and small businesses that have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Saying landlords were suffering “irreparable harm,” the conservative-controlled court ruled late Thursday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked authority to impose the moratorium under the decades-old federal law the agency was invoking.

A federal judge in Washington ruled that a temporary U.S. ban on evictions in parts of the country hit hardest by the coronavirus can continue, a major victory for the Biden administration’s efforts to extend protections as the Delta variant spreads.

Ten classes of multifamily mortgage pass-through certificates will be issued from the trust, which is secured by 29 loans on 29 properties.

Landlord groups have challenged the policy, arguing that the administration bowed to political pressure even though it knew the eviction freeze wouldn’t pass muster with the courts.

Late payments on office loans have trended upward recently, but longer lease periods may mitigate the potential for distress in that sector, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The numbers in a new Research Institute for Housing America report reinforce other signs that recovery isn’t moving quite as quickly as originally anticipated.

President Joe Biden quelled for now a brewing confrontation with progressive Democrats with a new moratorium on evictions during the pandemic, but the order invites a legal fight with high-stakes consequences for public health that the government may well lose.

The government-sponsored enterprise's single-family credit reserve release caused earnings to spike.