Market Update Blog

March 8, 2018

Barry Slatt Mortgage would like to profile a correspondent lender program. The following outlines one of our most competitive Life Insurance Company correspondent lenders in the market: Loan amounts range from $5-50 million Lends Nationally in major markets Typical fixed-rate…

March 1, 2018

Barry Slatt Mortgage Vice President, Behzad Boroumand, recently sat down and interviewed CEO Dan Friedeberg to discuss frequently asked questions about Life Insurance Company loans. The following are excerpts from the 2/27/18 interview: Q: Boroumand:  Are Life Insurance Companies portfolio…

February 15, 2018

The following are Barry Slatt Mortgage Company’s top takeaways from this week’s 2018 Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference in San Diego, CA. The market for debt and equity is very liquid. Real estate in most major…

February 8, 2018

Janet Yellen, Chairman of the Federal Reserve stepped down from office last week. President Donald Trump replaced her with Federal Governor Jerome Powell. Powell has a big job ahead of him with hints of inflation reportedly creeping into the economy….

February 1, 2018

The 10-year benchmark US Treasury closed today at 2.78 percent. This rate is up from its 12-month low in August, 2017 of 2.06 percent. According to a 1-31-18 article in Bloomberg by Jeremy Herron, “Investors are weighing the path of…