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[ May 29, 2025 ] Why I Believe Bob Knakal is the Greatest Commercial Real Estate Broker of All Time Editor's Picks
[ May 29, 2025 ] Industrial Real Estate Brokers Agawam MA Secure 45,000 SF Warehouse Lease for Surteco North America Commercial Real Estate
[ May 28, 2025 ] Why Transit-Linked Retail Is Winning and What Ben Ashkenazy Sees That Others Don’t Editor's Picks
[ May 27, 2025 ] Citigroup Drives CMBS Conduit Loan Train in Early 2025 – Commercial Observer Commercial Lending Update
[ May 23, 2025 ] Invesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust Closes $1.2B Inaugural CRE CLO – Commercial Observer Commercial Lending Update

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. […]

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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 […]

Why I Believe Bob Knakal is the Greatest Commercial Real Estate Broker of All Time

May 29, 2025

6 Reasons Bob Knakal Stands Alone in CRE Unmatched Consistency – Over 2,351 buildings sold in 41 years, averaging more than one closing per week. Built From the Ground Up – Co-founded Massey Knakal, a [...]
$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 [...]

Big US banks withstand Fed’s commercial real estate shock scenario in stress test

June 29, 2024

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 [...]
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 [...]
Daniel Levy Out As President of Ashkenazy Acquisitions

June 23, 2024

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 [...]
Wells Fargo Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Soured $481,000,000 Loan, Says US Bank Aware Seller Had Inflated Income: Report

March 20, 2025

Two of the largest banks in the US are reportedly locked in a legal battle over a $481 million commercial property loan. Wells Fargo is suing JPMorgan Chase, the largest back in the US, over [...]
‘Lending money with a mission:’ Venture North boosts small business in region | Local News

July 14, 2024

TRAVERSE CITY — Small business owner Jody Hayden needed a loan for an unusual purchase. Instead of buying a case of chocolate bars for her Empire store, she needed 27,000 pounds of the sweet confectionary [...]