Real Estate Investors Optimistic About GSE Quarterly Meeting
January 13, 2017
Fannie Mae invited several real estate investors to its first quarterly meeting of the year this month to discuss single-family rental loans. Tom Wilson of Wilson Investment Properties and Bruce Norris of the Norris Group attended and spoke from the investor’s perspective on single-family rental loans, which have become harder to obtain since the housing downturn. Wilson said that as a result it’s been more difficult for investors and landlords to be “economically motivated” to provide sufficient housing. Discussions at the meeting with the two California-based real estate investors centered on Fannie’s limit on the number of loans to a...