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Freddie Mac funded $12.85 billion of multifamily loans during the first quarter, up 30% from the $10 billion it funded a year ago, but 55% less than the $29 billion it funded during last year's fourth quarter. The agency typically ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report The second annual Trepp Connect conference got underway earlier today in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, with more than 200 attendees. After opening remarks by Annemarie DiCola, chief executive of Trepp Inc., Victor Calanog, managing director ...

Fannie Mae funded 669 multifamily loans with a balance of $17.1 billion during the first quarter, up nearly 45% from the $11.8 billion it funded a year ago. The latest quarter's volume increased the housing-finance agency's book of multifamily loans ...

The volume of CMBS loans that are classified as being delinquent declined in April by $815 million, or 1.78%, to $45.02 billion. Delinquency volumes have gyrated over the past 12 months, climbing in six months and declining in another six.

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Only 3,854 apartment units were delivered in Phoenix during the first quarter, marking the lowest quarterly volume in more than four years and a 20% drop from the fourth quarter, according to Cushman & ...

Apartment rents in San Francisco averaged $2,737/unit in the first quarter, up 3% from the same time last year, according to Kidder Mathews. The vacancy rate throughout the city has declined year over year to 4.7% from 5.3%.

The city's office market continued to struggle last quarter, with absorption remaining in the red. A bright spot was the city's Energy Corridor, which has benefited from the country's sharp increase in oil production. The submarket has some of the ...

The Washington, D.C., office market recorded its weakest leasing quarter in two and a half years, with only 1.3 million square feet leased in the first quarter, according to Savills.

While agency loans comprise an overwhelming majority of the securitized multifamily loan universe, CMBS loans carry disproportionately higher delinquency rates, shorter remaining terms, and greater refinancing sensitivity.

The world's inventory of data centers as measured by power capacity grew by 12% last year and roughly a quarter over the past two years. Growth is expected to continue ballooning, but it's not without challenges.