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Aging Baby Boomers Reshape the Housing Market

While the 2008 financial crisis prompted a cyclical shift in U.S. housing — impacting everything from home prices to who can qualify for a mortgage — an equally impactful demographic change was just taking shape. The unprecedented wave of Baby Boomers that began retiring would disrupt the balance of the housing market.

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Secondary and Tertiary Markets Gain Ground on Primary Cities

As secondary and tertiary markets continue to gain parity with larger primary cities around the nation, they offer investors a significant potential for return on investment, even as the U.S. and global economic landscapes face notable headwinds.

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Small Multifamily Investment Snapshot — Q4 2022

The small multifamily sub-sector ended 2022 on a high note with originations falling just behind 2021’s peak. As economic storm clouds continue circling, small multifamily appears fortified from any reverberations that may result.

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Arbor Realty Trust Reacts to Ningi Research Report

UNIONDALE, N.Y., March 14, 2023  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE: ABR), announced today that the Company is in receipt of the purported “research” report that was published earlier today by Ningi Research, a short seller of Arbor stock. The report lacks merit and contains numerous inaccuracies, misstatements, and otherwise misleading allegations. This false Read the full article…

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Arbor’s Leah Fisher Joins Global Sustainability Panel at InnovateESG

Arbor Senior Vice President, Special Projects, Governance and Risk, Leah Fisher recently spoke on a thought-provoking panel discussion at InnovateESG 2023, a conference focused on environmental, social, and governance missions, hosted by NYU Stern’s Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance.

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Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot — Q4 2022

SFR will maintain exposure to the cyclical disruption brought on by the housing market’s softness and rising interest rates, even though its structural growth outlook remains positive and unchanged.

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Arthanais Williams

Managing Director, Affordable Housing

Arthanais Williams is responsible for establishing, developing and managing Arbor’s multifamily affordable financing platform across the agency and structured product lines, focusing primarily on tax-exempt bond funded first mortgage loans.

Arthanais brings more than two decades of experience in valuation, acquisition, rehabilitation and financial structuring for a wide variety of real estate assets, including multifamily, retail, mixed-use and charter school properties. Most recently, he served as Relationship Manager, Targeted Affordable Housing at Freddie Mac. Prior to that, he underwrote loans and performed all aspects of due diligence related to structuring and underwriting loan requests as Senior Vice President, Community Development Lending, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Arthanais holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Maryland, as well as a Master of Business Administration in Business Economics and Public Policy from The George Washington University.

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