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Wells Fargo sells most of its commercial mortgage servicing to Trimont

Housing Wire

Wells Fargo has agreed to sell most of its commercial mortgage servicing portfolio to Atlanta-based Trimont. The deal is expected to make Trimont the largest servicer of multifamily and commercial loans in the U.S. The transaction includes only Wells Fargo’s non-agency, third-party commercial mortgage servicing (CMS) business.

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MBA promotes Jamie Woodwell to lead its commercial, multifamily public policy efforts

Housing Wire

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) on Monday appointed Jamie Woodwell as its senior vice president of commercial/multifamily policy and strategic industry engagement. MBA leadership praised Woodwell for his market expertise and detailed economic insights in the commercial and multifamily real estate sectors.

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Opinion: Why aren’t more commercial brokerages seeking affiliated arrangements?

Housing Wire

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. Right now, we’re generally seeing more mixed-use developments and multifaceted commercial projects.

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Private-label securities are in demand as investors bet Fed peak is reached

Housing Wire

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. My guess is we’ll do 10 or 11 deals this year in the $5.5

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Stronghill Capital shuts down consumer, correspondent lending

Housing Wire

Small-balance commercial lender Stronghill Capital shut down its nascent consumer and correspondent lending businesses late last week. The Austin, Texas-based lender will continue offering small-balance commercial and business purpose debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans to its clients, CEO John Eisinger told HousingWire Monday morning.

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‘There will be bank failures,’ Fed chief tells lawmakers

Housing Wire

banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. We have identified the banks that have high commercial real estate concentrations, particularly office and retail and other [property types] that have been affected a lot,” Powell said. “We FDIC), banks held $2.78

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Barr: Fed is taking ‘thoughtful approach’ to Basel III rules

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The Fed is mainly concerned with financial institutions that have high concentrations in commercial real estate, primarily the office sector, where there are significant “expected price declines.” We gave the public extra time to comment on the rule because it was really complex. I expect them to make adjustments to the final rule.

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