The Federal Housing Finance Agency has reduced the lending caps it imposes on both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reducing the volume of loans each can write to $75 billion next year from this year's $78 billion. The regulator retained ...
Houston Business Journal Construction is underway on a 116,500-square-foot medical-office building in Houston. Healthpeak Properties Inc. is developing the five-story property at 7500 Fannin St. It already is 36 percent preleased and will include a parking garage that's being built ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Property owners executing "like-kind" exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Service code have been given additional time, until July 15, to complete their transactions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The CRE Finance Council yesterday urged an expansion of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, allowing it to be used to finance a broader swath of securitized commercial mortgage transactions. The trade ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The Federal Reserve this morning threw a lifeline to the CMBS industry by adding bonds from conduit deals as eligible collateral for financing under the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF. The TALF ...
The SEC and Financial Accounting Standards Board have decided not to extend the postponement of current expected credit loss rules to include nonbank financial institutions. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which became law late last ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report A group of trade organizations that include the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council is urging the Federal Reserve System and Treasury to expand the recently launched Term Asset-Backed Security Facility to include agency and ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The Commercial Real Estate Finance Council late last month submitted a comment letter urging regulators to withdraw their proposed rule that would replace the HVCRE, or High Volatility Commercial Real Estate, loan category with ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report One of the last attempts to have the recently enacted risk-retention rule modified was unsuccessful as the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against a trade group that sought to prompt regulators ...
Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Hersha Hospitality, which over the past five years has sold 55 stabilized hotels for a total of $1.3 billion and acquired 18 hotels with higher growth potential, is continuing to reposition its portfolio. "We ...
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