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[ April 30, 2025 ] Riverfront Retail Reinvented: The Shops at RiverCenter’s Role in San Antonio’s Retail Evolution Commercial Real Estate
[ April 29, 2025 ] Alliant Credit Union’s CRE and Lending Team Closes Successful Q1 with $133 million in Commitments Commercial Lending Update
[ April 28, 2025 ] How Off-Market Strategy Secured an $11.35M Culver City Office Sale Commercial Real Estate
[ April 25, 2025 ] Opinion: As US recession looms, banks brace for worse Commercial Lending Update
[ April 24, 2025 ] Pittsfield MA Industrial Warehouse Sale in Downing Industrial Park Commercial Real Estate

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 […]

Riverfront Retail Reinvented: The Shops at RiverCenter’s Role in San Antonio’s Retail Evolution

April 30, 2025

At the bend of San Antonio’s famed River Walk sits a 1988-era mall that’s rewriting the rules of retail real estate, The Shops at RiverCenter. Since acquiring the property in 2005, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, led [...]
$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 [...]

‘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 [...]
Just 16 mortgage lenders, brokers make Inc. 5000 list in 2023

August 18, 2023

The top mortgage lender on the Inc. 5000 list was VA Wholesale Mortgage, which specializes in offering home loans to veterans and active duty military members. Founded in 2019, the Virginia-based lender saw a 2,230% [...]
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 [...]
BKREA Founder Bob Knakal Announces Faraz Cheema as NYC Investment Property Brokerage Specialist

June 15, 2024

Faraz Cheema has joined the newly formed ai and technology driven NYC commercial real estate invest property brokerage BKREA. New York, NY, United States – June 3, 2024 — Faraz Cheema, SIOR, CCIM, has joined [...]
Kansas Passes State Law for Small Business Lender Disclosure Requ

April 22, 2024

On April 17, the Kansas Legislature signed SB 345, to become the most recent state to enact disclosure requirements for small business lenders. The law’s requirements apply to “providers” which are defined as persons who consummate [...]