WFG Hires Jessica Figueroa as Senior National Commercial Underwriting Counsel
Jessica M. Figueroa has joined WFG National Title Co., specializing in national title, settlement, valuation and technology services, as senior national commercial underwriting counsel...
Chris Cordisco Joins BB&T Real Estate Funding as Director and SVP
Chris Cordisco has joined BB&T Real Estate Funding (BBTREF), a subsidiary of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, as a director/senior vice president.
Cordisco has nearly 20...
Grandbridge Promotes T.J. Ownby to Tampa Production Manager
T.J. Ownby has been promoted to production manager of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Tampa, Fla., office.
Ownby was previously senior vice president.
Ownby has nearly 40...
The Peculiarities of New York’s Commercial Mortgage Tax Laws
There are certain oddities of the New York mortgage tax that out-of-state practitioners should be aware of...
Setting a Growth Strategy for Commercial Lending
BLOG VIEW: As the economy improves, every sector of the real estate business is experiencing growth - or at least the opportunity for growth....
LRES Hires Frank Obregon to Head Up Commercial Appraisals
Frank Obregon recently joined LRES, a provider of valuations, REO asset management and HOA solutions for the mortgage and real estate industry, as commercial appraisal manager.
Obregon...
Global DMS Launches New Valuation Management Platform for Commercial Lending
Global DMS, a provider of cloud-based valuation management software, has launched EVO-Commercial (EVO-C), a next-generation valuation management software platform for commercial lending.
The new platform...
Commercial Mortgage Originators Bullish on 2018
Originators anticipate that 2018 will be another strong year for commercial mortgages, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s CREF Outlook Survey.
In fact, 78% of...
Industry Participants Are Bullish on Multifamily Market Growth
According to a new survey commissioned by Freddie Mac, a significant majority of the multifamily industry believes the rental housing market will continue to...
Ten-X, Money360 Partner on Financing Options For Commercial Real Estate
Online real estate transaction marketplace Ten-X Commercial has partnered with Money360, a technology-enabled direct lender focused on commercial real estate, to offer financing for...
Hunt Mortgage Group Begins Securitizing Commercial Real Estate Loans
Hunt Mortgage Group, a company focused on financing commercial real estate throughout the U.S., has closed its first commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation...
Industry Veteran Megan Goodfellow Returns To Hunt Mortgage Group
Hunt Mortgage Group, a financing commercial real estate company, says that Megan Goodfellow has re-joined the firm as chief credit officer for commercial real...
MBA: Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Loan Originations Up 20% In Q2
Commercial and multifamily mortgage originations in the second quarter were 20% higher than during the same period last year and 28% higher than the...
UC Funds Debuts Commercial Mortgage Bridge Loan
UC Funds, a specialty finance firm that originates, structures, underwrites, and asset-manages commercial real estate investments, has introduced its new UC GO non-recourse commercial...
Mortgage Rates Make Biggest Weekly Jump Since March
The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) made its largest week-over-week leap since March, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
The 30-year FRM averaged 3.96%,...
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase Week Over Week
Mortgage applications increased 1.4% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending...
Home Point Expands Origination Channel, Sells Reverse Business
Mortgage originator and servicer Home Point Financial Corp. has expanded its third-party origination (TPO) channel, following its acquisition of Stonegate Mortgage Corp. The company...
Lea Overby Named Head of CMBS Research, Analytics at Morningstar
Morningstar Credit Ratings LLC has named Lea Overby head of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) research and analytics.
In her new role, Overby will oversee the...
MBA: Commercial, Multifamily Mortgage Originations to Drop
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) projects commercial and multifamily mortgage originations will be down slightly in 2017, ending the year at $478 billion, a...
National Bank Holdings Scoops Up Peoples
National Bank Holdings Corp., the parent company of NBH Bank, and Peoples Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for NBH to acquire Peoples,...