The benchmark 10-year Treasury hit a new low on Wednesday, 2/26 as global investors have been moving their money from equities into treasuries (seen as a safe haven investment). According to a 2/27 article on Axios.com written by Dion Rabouin,…
The multi-family real estate asset class continues to be a favorite among real estate investors. In addition to investors viewing the multi-family asset as desirable, so do all major lending platforms. The following is a summary of how those major…
The Barry Slatt Mortgage team attended the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference 2020 in San Diego (CREF), California earlier this week. Over the course of three days, we had more than 20 lenders meet with us back…
2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China has spread throughout Asia. There have currently been a dozen patients diagnosed in the United States. According to a 5-5-2020 article in CNBC Markets, “China says a total of 28,018…
Global as well as National news have the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note (US10Y) acting erratically to start 2020. The US10Y closed at 1.74%, 15 basis points below the 1.88% high that started the year. Increase concern over…
Now that 2019 has come to an end and we have entered the first part of 2020, Barry Slatt Mortgage would like to give our opinion on market trends for Q1, 2020: Interest rates for long-term fixed-rate loans have decreased…
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