Market Update Blog

March 19, 2014
Prepayment penalties are an oft overlooked yet essential element when assessing the financing of a commercial property. Understanding this key factor can have a major impact on the benefit of…
March 12, 2014
+ Nonfarm payrolls rose by 175,000 in February as employers looked past the weather of late. The unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7% percent as an increase in the labor…
March 5, 2014
As the purchase and sale of single tenant NNN space continues its torrid pace into the first quarter of 2014, the financing for such transactions is also at record production…
February 28, 2014
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, in the second day of her semi-annual testimony on the economy and monetary policy, repeated the Fed’s pledge to keep the benchmark interest rate low…
February 19, 2014
The Mortgage Banker Association’s biggest annual gathering known as CREF was recently held in Orlando. The conference was fast-paced and well-attended, reflecting the level of liquidity in the market. After…
February 5, 2014
There is a looming storm of loan maturities on the horizon. The seeds of which were sown ten years ago, when it was easy to get a loan; perhaps too…