The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved new rules on Wednesday that will allow landlords to rent out unpermitted apartments.
The new ordinance is key to “protecting low- and moderate-in...
While multifamily remains one of the most desirable asset classes to finance, a number of new factors have emerged that are making it more challenging to secure competitive financing.
The multifamily market has certainly enjoyed a golden era...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still have housing blood on their hands from the 2008 financial crash. However, the giant GSEs, placed in government conservatorship in September 2008, have now, virtually all by themselves, created another bubble - ...
Los Angeles is in a sweet spot in its real estate cycle that will make it one of the top choices in the world for buying property this year, a new report says.
The L.A. area ranked No. 1 in North America in a survey of global real estate inv...
Multifamily origination volume could grow to around $295bn this year, according to new data from Freddie Mac.
This multi-hundred-billion dollar increase would depend on the 10-year treasury rate and whether it stays in the 2.5% range.
Vol...
After a year of strong economic performance, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted at their year-end meeting to hike interest rates by 25 basis points. They also released projections which reveal that they intend to increase rates thr...
Hopefully, if you own apartments in the City of Los Angeles and are under the L.A. Rent Stabilization Ordinance, you have already paid your building’s registration fees of $24.51 per unit which was due by February 29, 2017. Serving a timely ...
Borrowers still have lots of choices when securing permanent financing for apartment properties, particularly from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
“There is overall good liquidity in the mortgage markets,” says Mitchell Kiffe, senior managin...
About 60 percent of the units in Ten50—the 25-story condo tower in Downtown LA’s South Park neighborhood with a drone landing pad—have been scooped up after sales launched last year, says Los Angeles Downtown News.
The tower at the cor...
The Arts District, South Park and Koreatown are among L.A.'s emerging neighborhoods. Many developers consider them ripe for development.
From Carmel Partners senior vice president of development Neils Cotter's perspective, the entire City o...