and the FHFA leader tries to calm housing and multifamily markets A Major Lift for Fannie and Freddie “Our overriding objective is to ensure that there is broad liquidity in the housing finance market and to do so in a way that is safe and sound,” Melvin L. Watt, the new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
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Chicago-area commercial properties jumped in the first quarter to their highest level since 2008, fueled by rebounding rents and occupancies and a pickup in lending.
Investors plunked down more than $3 billion to acquire 192 apartment properties, retail centers, industrial buildings and hotels in the first quarter, up 59 percent from $1.9 billion in year-earlier period, according to New York-based research firm Real Capital Analytics Inc. It was the best first-quarter showing since the first three months of 2008, at the tail end of the last boom, when investors bought $3.9 billion in commercial real estate here.
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