Commentary

New commentary from DBRS Morningstar highlights how the company looks at banks’ management of climate-related risks—in particular, from a credit perspective.

Headwinds such as the adoption of AI, global economic and political health, and the impact of remote work and vacant office spaces top a new study of the primary issues affecting real estate.

According to a new First American Financial Company blog post, millennials are poised to surpass boomers as the largest generation and will be the major purchasers of their homes. Here’s what that will mean for the industry.

A variety of lenders were surveyed for a new Fannie Mae study, which found that lenders cited operational efficiency as the primary motivation for AI and machine learning adoption.

Some towns with four-year colleges that are off the beaten path are ripe for real estate investment as room and board prices soar. Here’s a short list of markets poised to explode.

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) chose to forgo the opportunity to raise the central bank’s nominal interest rate at the conclusion of their September meeting, a repeat of the action the committee last took in June after hiking rates in July.

The annual gathering of the Federation of REO Certified Agents took place at the 20th Five Star Conference and Expo, exploring everything REO, including data-backed insights from Fannie Mae and a series of informative panels. As Rick Sharga, President & CEO of CJ Patrick Company put it, "If you want to stay ahead in the distressed/default industry, you need to keep moving upstream."

Ginne Mae has announced the launch of a “social bonds” label for single-family forward mortgage-backed securities supporting its mission-oriented work and spotlighting positive social impacts of its financing framework.

According to ATTOM Data’s newest Special Housing Impact Report, it found that New Jersey and Ilinois had the highest concentrations of the most-at-risk markets in the country.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has funded an initial $18 million in grants to support energy efficiency and climate resilience in multifamily assisted housing properties as part of the Administration’s “Investing in America” agenda.