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Institutional Lenders Struggle to Compete with GSEs
As the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) continue to dominate the multifamily lending arena, many institutional lenders are shying away from new originations.
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Life Insurance Firms Open Debt Shops Again
For most of 2009, life insurance companies have been a shrinking presence in the multifamily debt industry
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A Sea Change in Underwriting Affordable Housing Deals
Affordable housing deals have long enjoyed more favorable underwriting than their market-rate brethren.
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Employee drinking on the job
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Ready or Not
A tornado barrels through a downtown city block, slicing off the roof and smashing holes in a century-old apartment building.
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Acts of God and Man
As an apartment owner and manager, what's the worst thing that could happen to you? A fire, a flood, a tornado, a hailstorm?
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Hurricane Hassles
While doing business in hurricane country sounds dangerous, it does offer a certain predictability
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Master of Disaster
In the July/August issue Morgan McMillan, a senior broker with insurance firm McGriff, Seibels & Williams, based in Dallas, talked with APARTMENT FINANCE TODAY about recent catastrophic flooding and storms across the country and how apartment owners can protect their properties.
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Slashing and Cashing In
Multifamily companies often rely on rising rents and the sales and acquisition market to generate growth.
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Portfolio Lenders Fill Up
Multifamily borrowers are again turning to institutional lenders, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raise their prices and many banks scale back their balance-sheet lending efforts.