MBA Survey: 2018 Breaks Mortgage-Origination Records

MBA Survey: 2018 Breaks Mortgage-Origination Records

The commercial real estate industry didn’t lack financing activity over the last fiscal year, despite concerns about the direction of the overall economy and a few interest-rate increases over that time. Instead, 2018 was a record fiscal year for origination of...

MBA Tackles GSE Reform, Waiting for Congress

Last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released a white paper titled: GSE Reform: Creating a Sustainable, More Vibrant, Secondary Mortgage Market, which laid out the association’s vision for a reformed and revitalized Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and secondary...

MBA’S CREF REPORT: What if Fannie and Freddy Go Away?

Steve Canty, a business development director at GRS | Corteq, and some other members of the GRS team, recently attended the Mortgage Banker Association’s CREF 2017 multifamily conference in San Diego. Here are his thoughts on where this sector of commercial real...

Small Balance Loans a Big CRE Driver

Earlier this summer, the Mortgage Bankers Association had its first-ever Small Balance Lending Summit, in Chicago. Many members of GRS Group attended the conference to gain further insight into this sector of commercial real estate lending, in which the firm is...