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Chicago, Illinois, June 29, 2007 – Funding volume remains steady despite concerns about the subprime lending issues. Currently, income-property permanent mortgage rates range within 6% to 6.75%, translating to pricing of 100 to 160 basis points above 5- and 10-year treasury yields. In comparison to May, shorter-term rates increased by about 10 basis points and long-term by more than 20 points. By the end of the month, the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged had a minimal impact on lowering rates. As a result, mortgage rates are steadily trending upwards.

While rates are moving upward, the mortgage yield curve is behaving more “normally” as spreads widen between short and long-term bond maturities. Swap spreads remain tight as many debt investors flock to investment-grade CMBS notes as a more popular benchmark index. Furthermore, swap markets are extensively used by many financial institutions (especially banks) for creating fixed-rate structures to directly compete with securitized loan programs.

The yield curve structure offers some attractive funding options. In particular, among the best-priced debt options in the today is the forward-delivery mortgage. Premiums as low as 10 basis point over the current rate buys as much as 18 months of rate-lock. Such spreads are nearly 40 basis points lower than only a few years ago.

John Oharenko, an advisory board member of the Real Estate Capital Institute, notes “Borrowers still have plenty of funding options available for most property types. From a historical perspective, leverage availability and underwriting standards are more liberal than any time during the past few decades.”

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