Market Update Blog

January 28, 2015

Don’t expect big changes when the Federal Reserve updates its monetary policy guidance on Wednesday, after its first meeting of 2015. The Fed said in December it would be patient in deciding how soon to start raising its benchmark interest rate. Analysts…

January 21, 2015

California Civil Code §1938 requires all commercial leases to contain an accessibility disclosure which states whether the property has been inspected by a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) and, if so, whether the premises has been determined to meet all applicable…

January 14, 2015

A darker growth outlook overseas is likely to push back the U.S. Federal Reserve’s first rate increase in eight years, the World Bank said Tuesday. “I expect it will prompt the Fed to hold off on an interest rate rise for a little longer…

January 7, 2015

Barry Slatt Mortgage represents several prominent lenders on a correspondent basis, in addition to our wide breadth of open market lending resources. After significantly increasing their lending in 2014, most organizations seem poised for another banner year. The following is…

December 17, 2014

Commercial real estate borrowing and lending continued at a strong clip in the third quarter. Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations were 16 percent higher than in the same period last year, and 18 percent higher than the second quarter…

December 10, 2014

It’s not a coincidence that recent reports by Fitch Ratings and Trepp have used the word wall to characterize the CMBS maturities due to occur in 2015, 2016 and 2017. “Over the next three years, more than $300 billion in…