GlobeSt.com reports that Freddie Mac expects it will end 2016 having done around $55 billion in mortgage purchases, or originations as the rest of the industry would call it. It will also have done by year-end, give or take, some $50 billion in securitizations. So says David Brickman, executive vice president and head of the Multifamily Business, who shared his end-of-the-year estimates with GlobeSt.com this week.

Multifamily originations will show similar growth in 2017, the GSE’s David Brickman predicts. Read more at GlobeSt.com

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