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Another historic FED move!

The Federal Reserve Bank dropped their Fed Fund rate by .50% today. What made this a historic was because of the coordinated move with all of the world's central banks at the same time including China. Japan and Australia have made similar moves but issued statements of support. Russian on the other hand dances to their own beat.

Dropping central bank rates has immediate global impact in this environment. Coordinating the drop and statements at the same time indicates the concern of almost all governments over the current crisis.

The real positive is the fact we did have a coordinated move as it will take more than the US to resolve the issues that are plaguing the economy. Global markets will see this as a real positive as well. Hopefully 401K's and investors earn a few billion of the $2T back soon.

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FEDS make another historic move.

The Feds made another historic move today in announcing a “special purpose” vehicle specifically for commercial non bank companies.

Many on Main Street are not aware of the issues companies have in this financial meltdown. Large and small business owners rely heavily on short term commercial paper.

Commercial paper in its simplest form is a promissory note or IOU to raise capital for operations. Investors purchase short term notes of 1 to 3 month maturities because they have higher yields than Treasury Bills and have been considered very safe. It is a huge market on Wall Street.

Investors have effectively left the credit market high and literally dry. This exit was relatively quick leaving companies with no available options except for the traditional banking products. The commercial paper coming to maturity has to be rolled over or a whole lot more capital needs to be coughed up. Many small business owners may relate the short term credit market in the same manner as lines of credit that mature annually.

Unfortunately banks are still not lending to each other and much less to companies. The overnight LIBOR rate for banks jumped to 3.94%. The LIBOR rate jump indicates that if a bank wants to borrow money, it needs to borrow from the Fed instead at 2.25% instead. The Feds will lower this in the next few days.

The Treasury and Federal Reserve got together to form the historic move. The “special purpose” entity could be viewed as an extension of a SBA lending arm.

The biggest issue is the move again doesn’t directly affect Main Street but may save jobs for many.

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Multifamily fight over Wachovia

The multifamily investment market is watching Wachovia, Wells Fargo, Citigroup slug it out.

The demise of Wachovia Corp has the claws out in a cat fight over the sale. Citigroup thought they had a steal, make that a DEAL in acquiring the bank.

Encourage by the Feds, Citigroup made the deal to acquire Wachovia’s banking assets for $2.16B and takeover much of Wachovia’s debt. Wachovia shareholders were apparently the victim of a misunderstanding. Much like the mortgage paperwork many borrowers signed, they must have missed the part of only $2.16B.

Wachovia was approached by Wells Fargo who offered $15B and they quickly took that deal as well setting off the ensuing fight. Citigroup then sued Wells Fargo for $60B and the Feds have helped settle the issue. The Feds not only encouraged the Citigroup offer but most likely brokered it as well. And they weren’t all that happy when Wells Fargo came courting.

The real issue for Citigroup was the purchase would make raising $10B in capital much easier and now could be more difficult. Wells Fargo immediately announced they would be raising $20B in capital for the new purchase.

The multifamily investment industry has a stake in the new purchase as both Wells Fargo and Wachovia were top multifamily originators. In fact, Wachovia’s multifamily division recently achieved a “fully delegated” status from Freddie Mac for the Targeted Affordable Housing.

Neither bank would make any comments on the multifamily division other than to say it would be business as usual. A real commitment to offer an expanded multifamily loan program under one company would be a real boost for investors.

Let's kiss, make up and move on in time for some of that $700B payday.

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5000 Alpha Lane
Chattanooga TN 37421

Office 423-870-2285
Toll Free 800-452-9287

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Rick Fitzgerald
Your Multi-Family Expert


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Steve Fossett's airplane wreck finally found

BBC reported that a hiker found some clothing of Fossett's that led searchers to the wreckage. Fossett was the millionaire known for his adventures.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7647732.stm#map

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5000 Alpha Lane
Chattanooga TN 37421

Office 423-870-2285
Toll Free 800-452-9287

AAM Capital

Rick Fitzgerald
Your Multi-Family Expert


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MBA reports Multifamily investments performing well

Well darn......a little good news for my multifamily investment market again. I'll take any good news for now.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) confirmed the multifamily investment market is still performing well for both investors and lenders.

Although we have seen a small rise in multifamily delinquency rates in the second Q this year, last year was a record low in comparison for investors. The rise was less than expected though.

Our financial resources of CMBS, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Life Insurance and commercial banks all reported lower than expected delinquencies given the environment. All together this financial group holds more than 80% of the outstanding multifamily investment loans.

The combined portfolio held by insurance companies has over 35,000 loans and $252 billion in outstanding balances and is in very good shape with only 23 loans reporting more than 60 days late. FDIC backed portfolio of $1.2 trillion contained $15 billion in total delinquent balances over 90 days late or just 1.18 percent delinquent. Many banks would take that in their lending portfolio right now.

This bodes well for my multi family investment market. Business is being originated as usual for the government backed multifamily programs but a few days slower than average. I’d recommend a minimum of a 60 day contract to ensure everyone sits tight on a purchase.

Refinancing the multifamily investments continue to pick up because historical income and performance is easily gauged. However, my agent referrals for refinancing have slowed down greatly for some reason even though we pay a co-origination fee. Still a lot of bank notes on 20 years out there especially with balloons.

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Multifamily Investment Experts


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5000 Alpha Lane
Chattanooga TN 37421

Office 423-870-2285
Toll Free 800-452-9287

AAM Capital

Rick Fitzgerald
Your Multi-Family Expert


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commercial@aamonline.com
Fax 423-443-4784