More stories about Insurance

• Alabama and Texas Grapple with Coastal Insurance

• Coastal Windstorm Insurance: Time for the Feds to Step In?

• Solid as a Rock

  Prudential is out to shatter the notion that all life insurance companies are shrinking violets in 2009.

• Commentary: To Unlock Capital for Multifamily Housing, Raise FHA Mortgage Limits

  Low per-unit mortgage base limits constitute a significant flaw in an otherwise highly worthwhile Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program.

• Institutional Lenders Remain Locked Up

  For many institutional lenders, their balance sheets are, well, a little unbalanced right now.

• Institutional Lenders Remain Locked Up

  For many institutional lenders, their balance sheets are, well, a little unbalanced right now.

• 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.

• Life Insurance Firms Open Debt Shops Again

  For most of 2009, life insurance companies have been a shrinking presence in the multifamily debt industry

• A Sea Change in Underwriting Affordable Housing Deals

  Affordable housing deals have long enjoyed more favorable underwriting than their market-rate brethren.

• Legal: Employee Drinking on the Job

  Employee drinking on the job