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How Off-Market Strategy Secured an .35M Culver City Office Sale

How Off-Market Strategy Secured an $11.35M Culver City Office Sale

April 28, 2025 Caroline Vega

In the competitive landscape of Los Angeles commercial real estate, sometimes the best deals never see the open market. That was the case for a two-building office property at 5813-5835 Washington Boulevard in Culver City, […]

Trade War Rattles Retail Deal-Makers, Especially Lenders – Commercial Observer

July 14, 2025

In the world of mystery and wonder that is the current tariff landscape, the buzzwords for business have been instability and uncertainty, which also happen to be two of the least desired words in the [...]
$520,659 For Family, Small Business Loans: St. Helens credit union to share funding

October 4, 2022

Three Oregon credit unions, including InRoads in St. Helens, will receive a total of $520,659 in federal dollars to support small loans to families and businesses. The funding is coming from the U.S. Department [...]
Dayton to invest $7M in ‘first floor’ small businesses

October 4, 2022

DAYTON, Ohio — The City of Dayton is using $7 million in pandemic recovery funds to help entrepreneurs start or expand restaurants, salons and other street-level small businesses in neighborhood commercial areas. What You [...]
First Bank expands commercial lending capabilities (updated)

October 4, 2022

First Bank is offering new options for commercial lending, the community bank announced Sept. 28, with the addition of servicing for private equity funds. The Hamilton-based institution said it offers capital call lines of [...]
FoA plans to sell retail division to Guaranteed Rate, close wholesale channel: sources

October 4, 2022

Amid the most challenging mortgage market in decades, multichannel lender Finance of America (FoA) plans to sell its retail mortgage division and shut down its forward wholesale channel, multiple sources told HousingWire. According to [...]

Minibubbles in US banking are popping with costs in the billions | Insights

January 13, 2023

As the number of lenders getting stung kept climbing in recent years, some industry stalwarts grew flummoxed by the willingness of so many bankers to eschew longstanding tenets against taking concentrated risks from a single [...]
Commercial Lending in Japan Upticks 6 Percent Annually in Q1

July 11, 2024

Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter Japan’s financing environment remains generally accommodative in 2024 Contrary to the conditions in Europe, the U.S., and many other Asian countries, the real estate financing environment in [...]
Brighten appoints new head of commercial lending

October 10, 2024

The non-bank has announced a new appointment as part of its continued expansion into the commercial space. Brighten has announced the appointment of Ben McKell as head of commercial lending, a newly created role that [...]
Comerica expects muted loan growth in 2025, posts Q4 profit

January 22, 2025

Loan growth at Comerica could be relatively muted throughout 2025, with gains being potentially offset by the ongoing paydown of commercial real estate loans, executives said Wednesday. The Dallas-based parent company of Comerica Bank expects [...]
Commercial Real Estate CLOs Confront Rising Distress From Higher Interest Rates – Commercial Observer

October 2, 2024

As commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation (CRE CLO) issuance accelerated in 2024, so did mounting distress due to rising interest rates. The 2024 U.S. CRE CLO volume was $6.8 billion as of Sept. 20, [...]