Rick Mattoon, Senior Economist and Economic Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, discusses whether the U.S. economy is on the verge of a double-dip recession or on the brink of recovery.
There has been $30.3 billion in new CMBS issuance to date in 2013, according to Commercial Mortgage Alert. That puts the industry on pace to smash last year’s volume of $48.4 billion and will make 2013 the busiest year for CMBS issuance since 2007. Where do you think total CMBS issuance volume will end up in 2013?