INSIGHTS

APPRAISAL INSTITUTE: Best Practices Emerge in Accounting for Environmental Contamination in Appraisals
A speaker on a recent EDR Insight webinar, titled An Inside Look at the Challenges Facing Appraisals and Lenders Today, warned attendees that bank regulators are being “very outspoken” about the appraisal-environmental functions… READ MORE >
  |   08.14.2014
Keeping Multifamily In Check: Fannie Mae's New PNA Guidance
Scotsman Guide just featured an article authored by EDR Insight’s Principal Analyst, Dianne Crocker as one of four “not to miss” articles in this month’s edition. The article, titled Keeping Multifamily in Check, READ MORE >
  |   08.12.2014
This Week’s Fed Lender Survey: Is the Glass Half Full? Or Half Empty?
Signs of Gradual Healing Continue in Lending Sector While all of us were all settling into our work weeks after another summer weekend, the Federal Reserve released its much-anticipated July 2014 Senior Loan… READ MORE >
  |   08.05.2014
NEWS FROM THE OCC: The Good and Not-So-Good on Lender Risk Management
Stern Warning from OCC As Banks Ease Underwriting Loan growth is up moderately, and with it, competition among lenders for new business. Underwriting is easing as a result—and that has regulators concerned. July’s… READ MORE >
  |   08.04.2014