Mortgage Banking

Down to earth.

Portfolio - Editorial

Ohio, Maryland courts overturn local predatory lending laws.

Briefing Book - American Financial Services Association

Rep. Frank: predatory lending, GSE reform top priorities.

Briefing Book - Rep. Barney Frank - Government-sponsored enterprise

California housing affordability at 24 percent for first-time buyers.

Briefing Book - Brief article

OFHEO finds Q3 home prices continue slow rise.

Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight

Aging baby boomers, young immigrants to drive homeownership.

Briefing Book

Suspected mortgage loan fraud rose by 35 percent in 2005.

Briefing Book

HNMA formed to reach Hispanic borrowers.

Briefing Book - Hispanic National Mortgage Association - Deutsche Bank AG

ditech.com offers MasterCard to customers to pay down mortgage.

Briefing Book - Brief article

Forecasters lower near-term estimates for economic growth.

Briefing Book - Statistical data

NAHB poll finds consumers still confident on home values.

Briefing Book - National Association of Home Builders - Brief article

Housing market to 'coast' in 2007.

Briefing Book - National Association of Realtors

OFHEO holds conforming loan limit steady for 2007.

Briefing Book - Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight - Brief article

The ticker.

Statistical table

A huge year for M & A.

Deal Talk - Merger-and-acquisition - Column

A very good year--still.

Executive Suite - Column

David Wyss, Standard & Poor's chief economist.

Newsmaker - Interview

ATM dad.

1919 Pennsylvania Ave. - Automated teller machines - Mortgage Bankers Association's effort for Financial literacy - Column

Calendar of events.

Calendar

Letter.

Letter to the editor

A return to normal: the outlook calls for the current deceleration in the housing market to moderate in 2007. Long-term rates will slowly rise to about 6.5 percent by the third quarter. Total single-family originations are expected to drop by 11 percent in 2007, following a projected 18 percent fall in 2006.

Cover Report: Business Outlook - Cover story

Lots for sale: there's a big build-up of unsold inventory in the new-home market and builders are trying their best to move it. But buyers are not getting what they banked on from existing homes, so the new-home market has stalled.

Cover Report: Business Outlook

Priced out: high prices have California buyers hunting for relief in many directions. Some have crossed the border into neighboring states, and others have headed for the far-reaching exurbs.

Cover Report: Business Outlook

The perfect calm: three prevailing fronts currently lingering over the commercial/multifamily real estate markets have created close to ideal conditions.

Commercial/Multifamily

Boston's uncommon market: several sectors of the Boston commercial and multifamily property markets are thriving today. But this key New England city boasts an economy that can be volatile, and its property markets ride the resulting ups and downs.

Commercial/Multifamily

The hotel acquisition binge: foreign investors swept across Canada in late 2006, spending billions to buy the Fairmont (probably its oldest) and Four Seasons (indisputably its most glamorous) hotel chains. These deals were the culmination of a string of acquisitions that has globalized most of Canada's innkeepers.

Commercial/Multifamily - Four Seasons Hotels Ltd. - Cascade Investment L.L.C. - Kingdom Hotel Investment Group

Wrightwood Capital goes back to the future: a Chicago-based commercial real estate finance firm has deep roots in the business and ambitious plans for growth.

Commercial/Multifamily - Company overview

Business/industrial parks on the upswing: global trade combined with a percolating domestic economy are powering an improvement in the industrial/business-park property market. The best evidence of this is the booming conditions in California's Inland Empire.

Commercial/Multifamily

A CRE technology primer: the commercial lending and servicing business would benefit greatly from some of the latest technology. This high-level discussion offers food for thought.

Commercial/Multifamily

Data security to heat up at federal, state levels in 2007.

TechNewz - Conference news