January 2026

Walker & Dunlop is partnering with Pretium in a $250 million commitment to affordable multifamily housing. Processing Content Walker & Dunlop Affordable Bridge Capital, the joint venture, will originate flexible, short-term first-mortgage bridge loans for properties being acquired, refinanced or prepared for long-term government-affordable programs, such as low-income housing tax credit, Section 8 and tax-exempt […]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be selling thousands more reverse mortgages that have been called due-and-payable on occupied homes, continuing a practice that began late last year. Processing Content More than 2,500 nonvacant loans with a total principal balance around $730 million are going up for sale on Feb. 10. Until recently, department’s

Key insight: President Donald Trump said he would ban institutional investment in single-family homes, and called on Congress to codify the changes.  What’s at stake: Banks are often financiers of institutional investments in single-family housing stock.  Forward look: The White House doesn’t have unilateral power to ban institutional investors from purchasing single family homes, but