Market Update Blog

April 29, 2015

The financial news world is atwitter over expectations that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s multifamily loan volumes are approaching their annual loan caps, which has resulted in wider rate spreads to slow loan volume. Despite the agencies’ request for relief,…

April 15, 2015

Barry Slatt Mortgage recently held its annual breakfast panel event at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. In this clip UBS Managing Director Todd Pollack discusses the state of the commercial loan market, and shares his thoughts on what to…

April 8, 2015

Equity continues to enter the commercial real estate sector and push down cap rates for net lease properties, according to a new report from the Boulder Group, a commercial real estate firm located in suburban Chicago. After hovering steady at…

April 1, 2015

The real estate financing market took an unexpected turn in 2011 when a Michigan court rendered a decision which called into question whether non-recourse loans are truly non-recourse. The court in that case held that a lender could foreclose on…

March 25, 2015

Overly weak inflation and a lack of evidence suggesting price pressures are about to heat up means the Fed shouldn’t raise interest rates this year, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said in a speech Wednesday. “I think…