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What Upper Darby’s 69th Street District Reveals About the Future of Retail Corridors

April 24, 2025 Caroline Vega

Not every retail story centers on distress. Some corridors evolve quietly, blending strategic repositioning with organic tenant growth. The 69th Street District in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, owned by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, offers a compelling example. […]

Mortgage REITs Are Making A Comeback

April 5, 2024 Caroline Vega

After a long bear market, mortgage real estate investment trusts (mREITs) are apparently making a comeback. Eight of the 12 best-performing REITs over the last five trading days have been mREITs. Four of the mREITs […]

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 [...]

The evolution of private credit

May 3, 2025

From direct lending to asset-based finance to commercial real estate debt. This article has been produced in partnership with Franklin Templeton Private credit is still a relatively new asset class that represents a diverse group [...]
Bob Knakal Starting New AI-Powered Brokerage – Commercial Observer

May 26, 2024

You can knock Knakal down, but you’ll never knock him out. After his recent unceremonious departure from JLL, Bob Knakal has struck out on his own and on Tuesday launched the artificial intelligence-backed capital markets [...]
How banks, regulators are navigating office loan challenges

July 7, 2024

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 [...]
What Conventional Wisdom Got Wrong About Signature Loan Sale

December 1, 2023

Since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation kicked off the sale of Signature Bank’s $33 billion in commercial real estate debt, the New York real estate industry has been watching, popcorn in hand, for the winning [...]
The Us Industries Receiving The Highest Amount Of Business Loans

June 27, 2023

(MENAFN- valuewalk) learn the insider secrets of what the top hedge funds are doing today to maximize their upside and gains. the agriculture and forestry industry receives the highest amount in approved business loans, per [...]