Analysis

The economic shock triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has lowered the chance of meaningful GSE reform over the next couple of years, according to Fitch Ratings.

Trepp says June's rate could climb higher as 7.6% of loans missed the May payment but remained less than 30 days delinquent.

Fitch Ratings reports that effects of the coronavirus crisis on retail has deteriorated financial performance of "lower-quality" regional malls.

NEW YORK CITY—The affordable housing crisis existed prior to the first case of Coronavirus here, but the pandemic has heightened the need in low-to-moderate-income…

While the virus will end at some date, its effects will last much longer, noted Messaging Architects.

JLL also said that there were good signs that the US economy is beginning to reawaken, citing truck loads, mortgage applications, new business applications, flight bookings, hotel reservations and distances traveled.

In the COVID-19 downturn, the buyer pool is getting smaller more quickly, he wrote. The eventual floor for prices will be driven by the status of property income, investor perceptions and economic fundamentals, he wrote.

The company's head of global real estate says that Microsoft isn't in any rush to get employees back into offices. But when they do return the goal is to work in team rooms and "neighborhoods," with appropriate social distancing.