Capital Markets

The latest deals, personnel moves and trends in the Midwest.

Fewer scheduled maturities are among the reasons that the Mortgage Bankers Association expects originations to decline slightly this year, says MBA's Jamie Woodwell.

"For too long, lawmakers have invested in infrastructure inefficiently, ignored critical needs, and allowed it to deteriorate.”

While most lending sources have stayed out of the affordable housing game, the agencies are fulfilling the tremendous demand to fund affordable housing deals.

The acquisition, development and repositioning of the office property is part of recent transitions in Long Island City, Queens.

Eastern Consolidated reports a drop in investment sales activity but with increases in Midtown West, the West Village and Chelsea.

While rising interest rates decrease home-buying power, it's also important to note that rising incomes can offset that decrease, First American's Mark Fleming tells GlobeSt.com.

“We don't want to be in the position of funds that sometimes are so focused on getting the money out that they're less disciplined about how it gets out,” A10 Capital's Tom MacManus tells GlobeSt.com.