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The U.S. Congress might finally kill Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage giants that still raise the capital for the vast majority of home loans.
The Trepp survey for the week ending April 18, 2014, showed rates unchanged over the past two weeks. Every indication is that market participants are “going about their business,” i.e., borrowers are borrowing and lenders are lending.
For-sale homes are disappearing from the market fastest in the San Francisco Bay area, Denver, Seattle, and southern California. The 2014 spring market is moving slightly faster than 2013, led by the lowest price tier of homes.
This past Wednesday, the hottest ticket in New York City was not on Broadway or for the baseball game. Rather, it was for the luncheon meeting of the Economics Club of New York, which had Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, as its featured speaker
Despite his significant expertise with public/private partnerships (P3s) in the United States, Jay Hailey, an attorney at DLA Piper, found something new to share with attendees at the 2014 ULI Spring Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia: the Canadian P3 model.
The Trepp survey for the period ending April 4, 2014, showed spreads basically unchanged, with the implied ten-year rate for properties with 50 percent to 59 percent loan-to-value ratios at 4.10 percent.
The economic benefits of building healthy places are outlined in a new publication from the Urban Land Institute— Building for Wellness: The Business Case.
ULI has announced Rives Taylor, D. Jamie Rusin, Sean Slater, and Ryan Call as joint recipients of the 2014 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are off to a strong start in 2014, showing returns far in excess of alternative public equity investments. REITs continue to have access to both equity and debt capital in size and at low cost, fueling their ability to selectively acquire property on an accretive basis.
Four developers of master-planned communities discussed the health-related aspects of their projects during the “Legacy of Building Healthy Places” session at ULI’s Building Healthy Places conference, held in February in Los Angeles.