Articles by Caroline Vega

Alanis Morissette could have been talking to regulators and lenders in her 1995 hit “You Learn” which highlighted the benefits of experience. Instead of “you live…you learn,” for bankers it is “you lend……you learn.” In […]

NYC Commercial Real Estate entrepreneur Bob Knakal announced Justin Rice-Moore has joined the new investment property brokerage. The new firm combines old school business fundamentals with cutting edge ai and technology tools providing market information […]

Major Banks Are Stealthily Beginning To Offload Troubled Commercial Loans Some of Wall Street’s biggest commercial lenders have stealthily begun selling off their delinquent commercial loans. Although these moves play quietly behind the scenes and […]

Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski has made the following appointments. All appointments are effective Aug. 1, 2023, unless noted. Rev. Alexander R. Anderson, formerly pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish in De Soto, is granted […]

If you’re wondering why Ben Ashkenazy’s 660 Madison Avenue, site of the former Barneys New York flagship, remains vacant, you’re not alone. Apparently Ashkenazy’s co-investors in the property have wondered the same thing. The billionaire […]

NEW YORK – Big US banks survived a hypothetical 40 per cent drop in commercial real estate (CRE) values as part of the US Federal Reserve’s annual health test, easing fears about the banking sector […]

I was on CNBC a couple of weeks ago with my friend Brian Sullivan, and I mentioned that I thought we were heading into the “biggest transfer of ownership in the history of New York […]

While nonbank loan channels have always coexisted with traditional banking, those channels were historically small niches in the overall economy. That changed after the Great Recession when new regulations limited the ability of banks to […]

  The Massimo Group launches the Massimobile App, a comprehensive tool for CRE brokers that offers pipeline tracking, business planning, and AI-driven coaching. The app aims to streamline workflows and boost productivity, launching June 4th. […]

Daniel Levy, who served as president of Ashkenazy Acquisitions, has left the company as that empire is facing headwinds. After managing the company’s acquisition of a portfolio of trophy properties, Levy left the company run […]