Avant Releases Multifamily Quick Loan Sizer
Avant Capital Partners, a New York City-based commercial mortgage banking firm, has developed a Web-based utility, the Multifamily Quick Loan Sizer, to assist...
Freddie Mac Releases 2008 Multifamily Data
Freddie Mac set a record of $24 billion in volume for its multifamily whole loan and bond guarantee business (multifamily mortgage settlements) in...
CSV Mortgage Capital Rolls Out New Lending Platform
CSV Mortgage Capital, a provider of first-mortgage financing on commercial real estate, has rolled out a new first-mortgage lending platform. The program will...
Fannie Mae Invested $35.5 Billion in Multifamily Housing Last Year
Fannie Mae, through its lender and housing partners, financed $35.5 billion in multifamily rental housing in 2008. Fannie Mae's multifamily financing solutions include...
Reis Launches Value Alert For CRE Properties
Reis Inc. has released Value Alert, a tool that identifies potentially troubled commercial mortgage assets that warrant further scrutiny. Value Alert analyzes properties...
MBA Releases Commercial/Multifamily Origination Data
Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations dropped in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Quarterly Survey of...
FDIC To Use Online Auctions For Liquidating Assets
Online auction companies will play a role in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s (FDIC) attempt to move the inventory of assets it acquired...
Wachovia Tops Ranking Of Commercial/Multifamily Servicing Volumes
Wachovia Securities scored the top position in the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) annual ranking of commercial and multifamily loan servicers. As of the...
RCH Capital Implements FICS’ Commercial Servicer
Financial Industry Computer Systems Inc. (FICS) says its Commercial Servicer platform has been successfully implemented at Saint Petersburg, Fla.-based RCH Capital. RCH Capital,...
REOMAC Creates Commercial Real Estate Committee
REOMAC, a not-for-profit trade association serving the mortgage default industry, has formed the Commercial Real Estate Committee. Primarily focused on the residential real...
Partner Engineering Acquires Environmental Assessment Practice
Partner Engineering and Science, a national provider of environmental and engineering due diligence services, has acquired the assets of the environmental site assessment...
TREPP-i To Provide Info On CRE Loan Spreads
Trepp LLC, a provider of commercial real estate finance analytics, is releasing the Trepp Real Estate Portfolio Pricing Index (TREPP-i) as a new...
Fitch: Majority Of 30-Day CMBS Delinquencies Stayed Delinquent In Q4
More than 80% of all commercial loans that were one-month delinquent in the fourth quarter of 2008 remained delinquent at the next scheduled...
MuniMae Modifies Terms Of Sale Of Agency Business
Municipal Mortgage & Equity LLC (MuniMae) says it has modified the terms of the previously announced sale of its agency lending operations to...
Commercial Real Estate Advisory Firm Established
Former Equitable Real Estate Investment Management Inc. executives Doug Tibbetts, Gary Sligar and Paul Klick have formed TRECAP Partners, which will provide investment...
Walker And Dunlop Merges With Column Guaranteed, Green Park Financial
Mortgage banking firm Walker & Dunlop Inc. and apartment lender Green Park Financial LP have merged with Column Guaranteed LLC, a subsidiary of...
JCR Capital Forms CRE Opportunity Funds
JCR Capital has formed two real estate opportunity funds to take advantage of the current credit market dislocation through debt and/or equity investment...
Parallel Forms Asset Management And Advisory Group
Parallel Holdings has formed a new venture, Parallel Asset Management, which focuses on third-party asset management and asset resolution services for commercial real...
CMBS Delinquencies Climb On Larger Loan Defaults
Defaults on larger loans were again chiefly responsible for another increase in commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan delinquencies to 0.88%, according to the...
HFF Closes Special-Assets Sales
HFF, formerly Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, has recently consummated the sale and/or recapitalization of a number of underperforming and financially challenged commercial real...