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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, […]

Your Personal Brand Is Today’s Business Card by Bob Knakal

June 13, 2026

By Bob Knakal For most of my forty-two years in the real estate brokerage business, a business card was one of the most important tools a professional could possess. You carried them everywhere. You handed [...]
$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 [...]

Commercial/Multifamily Loan Originations Recorded a Big Drop in Q1

May 10, 2023

A new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows that its Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Origination Index declined by 56% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2023, and was down 42% quarter-over-quarter. The decline comes after [...]
Finanta Partners With IBC Bank to Revolutionize Commercial Lending Through Digital Transformation

July 6, 2025

SAN ANTONIO, November 05, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IBC Bank, one of the leading financial institutions in the US, is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Finanta, a pioneer in financial technology solutions, aimed at revolutionizing its [...]
Gordon College Loses Religious Liberty Case for Loan Forgi…… | News & Reporting

August 7, 2024

Gordon College could be on the hook to repay $7 million of COVID-19 relief funds. A federal court rejected eight of the evangelical school’s arguments that it should be eligible for loan forgiveness. Gordon’s lawyers [...]
Q&A: ‘Reckoning is coming’ for commercial real estate

June 3, 2023

Commercial real estate veteran Bill Katter recently began writing a new chapter in his career after 18 years with United Properties, a gig that found him working on the $450 million RBC Gateway development in [...]
Arbor Realty to Foreclose on More Applesway Apartments in Houston

May 1, 2024

Arbor Realty is set to foreclose on a piece of a Westchase multifamily portfolio linked to Applesway Investment Group after the group became delinquent on a $60 million loan. Arbor was expected to foreclose on [...]