Last week I was at the Mortgage Bankers Association-Commercial Real Estate Forum, the big annual commercial real estate lenders conference. There was lots of discussion about loans coming due, larger life company allocations and the return (again) of CMBS. All of this was interesting but my biggest take away from CREF relates to the agency [...]
I often get asked by clients why the need to send me so much information just to get a quote on a loan. They want to tell me what they think the property is worth and think I should then be able to give them a firm quote. They tell me other mortgage brokers do [...]
In the good old days, before the collapse of the CMBS market and partial failure of the banking system, interest only (I/O) loans were everywhere. Banks were offering them, Life Companies were offering them, and Conduits were putting them on practically every deal as were Freddie and Fannie. And it wasn’t only partial I/O, for [...]
Borrowers who never considered FHA/HUD are now being told they need a FHA/HUD 223 (f) loan. However, most borrowers, and brokers who are selling this product, don’t understand the issues relating to these loans. The 223 (f) is FHA/HUD’s acquisition/refinance program for conventional apartment projects. With limited sources for apartment financing today, this program is being [...]
Ive been positing the Freddie offering circulars to their CME product. here is one from a recent CMBS offering which is also interesting. The pool has much more Multifamily than I expected. I guess its real and CMBS is winning multifamily deals.