SOURCE: New York Sun
Bloomberg News reported that commercial property loans increased 37% during the first quarter. The Mortgage Bankers Association gathered the data in a quarterly survey. The increase was a 37% jump in dollar volume as investment trusts were privatized and office buildings were bought and sold.
The breakdown of increases by sector is as [...]
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Commercial Property Loans Jump 37% in 1st Quarter
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Regulators Look at Commercial Lending Underwriting
SOURCE: East Bay Business Times
Regulators are carefully looking at underwriting practices of commercial lending institutions. It’s uncertain just how strict regulators will be, but new guidelines were issued this year that contain suggested limits for lenders. The suggested limits aren’t caps they are merely suggested limits. However if banks or institutions exceed the limits they [...]
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The Evolution of Commercial Real Estate
SOURCE: Investment News
Investment News writer Robert Brunswick writes of the changes and evolution of commercial real estate and how it was emerged as an asset class. During the 1980’s the commercial real estate market suffered from overbuilding and tax problems. Many factors have helped the commercial real estate market increase in size and continued [...]
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Increase in Business Loan Competition Could Lead to Better Rates
SOURCE: South Florida Business Journal
Many speculate with the slowing of the housing market that the competition for commercial loans will increase among banks and commercial lenders. This comes as good news to business owners, developers, builders, construction companies and entrepreneurs as increased competition should result in lower interest rates.
As condo and home building has declined [...]
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New York State Has Commercial Records Leak
SOURCE: New York Post
It was discovered that The New York Department of State website was allowing access to commercial real estate records including some personal information such as social security numbers. The potentially accessed informed includes commercial real estate mogul Donald Trumps. It was only a portion of the site and when officials realized that [...]
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Construction Lending Guidelines Change
SOURCE: Orlando Business Journal
Regulators issued new guidelines on December 6 that affect commercial lenders. The guidelines set ratios for which banks and commercial lenders will be monitored and under scrutiny if they exceed. There are two main ratios the new guidelines affect. Regulators will closely monitor lending institutions that fit the following definitions:
- Ratio of [...]
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Increase in Commercial Real Estate Brings Alternative Financing
SOURCE: The Denver Business Journal
For the year 2006 commercial real estate developers and investors bought, sold and redeveloped nearly $30 billion worth of commercial properties and assets. This $30 billion is almost double what was done in the previous year. This increase in the commercial real estate sector has driven prices higher across the country.
For [...]
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Regulators Urged to Examine New Proposed Guidelines
SOURCE: Jacksonville Business Journal
With the recent boom in commercial loans, some members of Congress are concerned about proposed federal banking guidelines fed regulators are working on. The issue at hand is that regulators don’t want a repeat of the bank failures that occurred in the commercial market in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Early in [...]
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Commercial Real Estate 101 Advice
SOURCE: New Mexico Business Weekly
Sue Millspaugh, a writer for the New Mexico Business Weekly, wrote a column with advice for those seeking to invest in commercial real estate. In commercial real estate lenders not only examine the cost of the property or the cost to build the property, but they also look very closely [...]
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Regulators Spurred to Ease Up on Proposals
SOURCE: Business First of Buffalo
Regulators are looking at issuing proposals to increase security and lessen the risk in lieu of the recent upswing in the commercial real estate sector. Members of Congress with the support of many in the commercial lending industry are pressing regulators to ease up a bit on planned proposals. Regulators [...]
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