Prepayment of GSE and life company loans, and originations of debt fund and CMBS loans, balance out 2019 loan maturities.

Commercial mortage-backed securities (CMBS) issuance is tied closely to spreads, giving a sense of how 2019 is likely to shape up.

Commercial real estate fundamentals and finance markets were largely stable during the third quarter.

Numbers from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies tell an important story about affordability, and also about how households and the housing market interacted before, during and after the Great Recession.

In the commercial and multifamily mortgage markets, different capital sources track delinquency rates in different ways, and for a host of good reasons.

Three times each year, MBA publishes its best thinking about how the next two years will shape up for commercial and multifamily real estate finance (CREF) markets.

The multifamily mortgage market is large and diverse, with 2,554 lenders making 44,623 loans totaling a record $285 billion in 2017.

The role of "Non-traditional" lenders continues to grow within the commercial real estate finance market.

The US economy showed solid strength during the second quarter, and that strength continues to flow through to demand for commercial real estate.  

It is hard to overstate how low commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates are today.

With the unemployment rate at 3.9 percent and more unfilled jobs than there are unemployed, MBA's Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF) Careers effort is working to bring more -- and more diverse - candidates to the $3 trillion commercial real estate finance industry.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage borrowing and lending have started 2018 at the second fastest pace on record, with first-half 2018 originations lower only than those of the first half of 2007.

The role of "non-traditional" lenders in commercial real estate finance increased significantly in 2017, but there is far more discussion about this than there is actual data.

Borrowing and lending backed by commercial real estate is starting 2018 at roughly the same pace at which it started 2017. The property types drawing the most attention of late continued to follow different paths, with retail originations declining while multifamily and industrial increased. It was the strongest first quarter on record for originations of loans for life insurance companies and the GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

During the first three months of 2018, commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased more than during any other first quarter since before the Great
Recession.