REQUIRED READING: Have Mixed-Use Developments And Lifestyle Centers Peaked?
Among many developers that have historically spread their focus across many different commercial real estate sectors, a clear preferred type of development has...
REQUIRED READING: Investors Can Still Make Money With The Right Risk Assessment
Operationally, large and small firms have many of the same challenges: Everyone needs to do more with less. That is especially true during...
REQUIRED READING: Capital Markets Slowdown Transforms Hotel Lending Rules
With the figurative punch bowl now removed from the hotel capital markets party, 2008 will most likely turn out to be different than...
REQUIRED READING: Ocwen’s Subprime Servicing Story
What is it like to be a subprime servicer in today's climate? As you might imagine, a primary observation relates to substantially higher...
REQUIRED READING: Process Improvement And Technology Can Strengthen Post-Closing Costs
The state of today's mortgage market demands smarter processing than what was performed just one year ago. One area of the lending process...
REQUIRED READING: Do You Have Standing?
'There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one,' observed Alexis...
REQUIRED READING: The Receivership’s Vital Role In Loan-Default Controlonomics
The concept of controlonomics is core to lenders' strategies in both loan origination and loan servicing. Specifically, applying controlonomics to a defaulted commercial...
REQUIRED READING: It’s Time To Re-evaluate Warehouse Lender Relationships
Today's dramatically changing market conditions require mortgage originators to re-evaluate their existing warehouse lender relationships. Business opportunities are simultaneously emerging, changing, tightening -...
REQUIRED READING: More Than A Quarter-Million Mods, Repayment Plans In 3Q
According to a recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), servicers modified an estimated 54,000 loans and established formal repayment plans with...
REQUIRED READING: Challenging Market Spells Pockets Of Unusual Opportunity
Now that the credit crunch seems to be settling in for a longer stay, many real estate professionals are trying to figure out...
REQUIRED READING: Going Beyond The Numbers With A New Due Diligence Approach
In 2007, the pages of mortgage industry publications have been dominated by sobering reports on how the subprime market has affected the industry....
REQUIRED READING: Enhancing The Servicer-Investor Connection
Heads are rolling at some of the biggest financial firms - most recently at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, where defaults on the subprime...
REQUIRED READING: Tertiary Markets Emerge As New Industrial Hot Spots
The landscape in the industrial real estate world is as fast-moving as the global trade and world economies that drive it. One thing...
REQUIRED READING: What’s New And Exciting In Loan Officer Education?
Under pressure from regulators and politicians, and facing lower profits from sales of loans, mortgage lenders are tightening lending standards and reducing the...
REQUIRED READING: Core Servicing Platform Technology Update
Technology vendors will undoubtedly be pleased to hear that servicers are, by and large, satisfied with the functionality and performance of their core...
REQUIRED READING: Socially Responsible Investment Comes Of Age
While socially responsible investing (SRI) has become popular in the general investment community, it continues to be a relatively overlooked sector of the...
REQUIRED READING: Ohio Order Draws Attention Of The Nation’s Judiciary
A recent case decided in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio could have far-reaching effects on the prosecution of...
REQUIRED READING: New Massachusetts Foreclosure Legislation
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick recently signed House No. 4387, which will make significant changes to the state's foreclosure process. The new law was...
REQUIRED READING: The Industry Must Battle Unfounded Perceptions
'Perception equals reality' is a commonly used phrase. If enough people believe a 'fact,' then it becomes a 'truth.' While debating the phrase...
REQUIRED READING: Credit Squeeze Increases Demand For Small-Balance Secondary Loans
In the face of suddenly volatile credit markets, characterized by tightening underwriting standards and persistent low cap rates, demand appears to be increasing...