Multifamily

The bill provides clarity to capital requirements to certain acquisition, development and construction loans are assigned a higher risk weighting under Basel III.

The amount of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding ticked up from April through June, yet the balance of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities continued its decline.

So-called transitional lending has traditionally been kept on balance sheet; but it’s become attractive to bundle the loans for transactions called (take a deep breath) commercial real estate collateralized loan obligations. Can investors stomach the features these deals sported before the crisis?

Insurers are seeing modest gains in market share as banks, facing increased scrutiny from regulators, lightly tap the brakes.