MBA Releases CRE/Multifamily First Quarter Data Book

MBA (6/26/2008 ) Vasquez, Jason
The Mortgage Bankers Association released its Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Quarterly Data Book for the first quarter of this year.

The Data Book compiles the most up-to-date information on topics of interest to commercial/multifamily real estate finance industry participants and observers.

This quarter’s Data Book includes additional information on property markets in the United States—specifically national asking rents, vacancy rates and an assessment of the balance between net completions and net absorption--that are based on information provided by Boston-based Property & Portfolio Research.
The first quarter edition includes the following topics:

• Economic Outlook —which includes economic commentary, long-term real estate finance and macroeconomic forecast, employees on non-farm payrolls, Treasury yields and bank rates, and owner- and renter-occupied housing units.

• Commercial/Multifamily Finance Environment —which includes comments from the Federal Reserve Board's Beige Book, property sales volumes, capitalization rates and multifamily building permits, and starts and completions. Newly added to this section is information on national asking rents and vacancy rates and on the balance between new completions and net absorption.

• Mortgage Production—which includes commercial/multifamily mortgage originations, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issuance and life company commitment volumes, as well as commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations (CRE CDO) issuance.

• Mortgage Debt Outstanding —which includes analysis of commercial/multifamily mortgage delinquency rates, as well as the volume and characteristics of CMBS outstanding and their yield spreads.

• Loan Servicing —which lists commercial/multifamily mortgage servicers, their roles and their servicing volumes.

• A listing of recent MBA Commercial/Multifamily research releases.

Click here to view MBA's Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Quarterly Data Book for the first quarter.