Stevens: ‘Boom’ coming; cleanup needed first

BOULDER – Demographic trends mean the future of the real estate industry is bright, provided it can weather a few more years of tough times and repair its reputation with the public and lawmakers, the chief of the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

David H. Stevens, president and chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association and a former Obama Administration official, delivered the keynote speech at the daylong Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference & Forecast, presented by the Boulder County Business Report at the Millennium Harvest House Boulder on Nov. 17.

Stevens’ speech alternated between optimism that the “echo boom” generation will cause…