MBA Releases 4th Quarter 2007 Commercial Real Estate/ Multifamily Finance Quarterly Data Book

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Quarterly Data Book for the fourth quarter of 2007. The Data Book compiles the most up-to-date information on topics of interest to financial investment industry participants and observers.

The fourth 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.

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 CMBS outstanding and CMBS yield spreads.

Loan Servicing - which includes listings of commercial/multifamily mortgage servicers and their roles and servicing volumes.

A Listing of Recent MBA Commercial/Multifamily Research News Releases.

This publication is just one more example of the valuable research that MBA, as the premier source for real estate finance information, provides. To view the Data Book click HERE.