The National Council of Housing Market Analysts (NCHMA) sent comments and recommendations to HUD as it updates Chapter 7 of the Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) Guide Market Study Guidelines. These comments are based on correspondence with HUD personnel over the past months and recent listening sessions with Market Analyst Practitioners, Chief Underwriters with MAP lenders and HUD personnel as well as a session dedicated to MAP Chapter 7 at the NCHMA Spring Conference in Atlanta on April 5, 2019.