Late last month, I delivered my mid-year market update, highlighting key trends in commercial real estate this year—and what that’s meant for the volume of Phase I environmental site assessments across the U.S.…
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“The larger banks are very disciplined in their commercial real estate lending, but when you get beyond that segment, there’s a significant competitive force that’s being applied to banks from the non-banks.”
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NOTE TO READERS: Below is an article that was just published in the Summer edition of the EBA Journal. The focus is on where the commercial real estate market stands at the first …
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The mid-year edition of CRE Direct opens with a Letter from the Editor, immediately calling out the question on everyone’s mind: When will the next recession take hold?
“How long [the economic recovery]… READ MORE >
Ever had your name called in a roomful of other professionals because someone nominated you for the honor of receiving an industry award of recognition?
Few have. For many, it’s a once-in-a-career honor.…
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Part II of II
Last week, I published Part I in a two-part series on five market predictions for 2018 based on my opening track at the Environmental Bankers Association’s winter conference. In…
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Part I of II
Thanks to EBA President Bill Sloan at Commerce Bank for inviting me to open up the EBA Winter Conference in sunny Long Beach—leaving our sub-zero New England temps behind.…
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EDR just wrapped up our fall Due Diligence at Dawn series in Houston, Dallas and Boston.
The property due diligence market is a market in transition. Transition due to the cyclical nature of…
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At the end of September, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Construction Lenders Risk Management forum in downtown Boston. Hosted by Partner Engineering’s Bill Tryon and Elizabeth Krol, the event drew…
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Nearly ten years ago, I published a piece on the environmental impacts of Huricane Katrina at a time when the media used terms like “toxic gumbo” and “nasty bouillabaisse of chemicals” to describe…
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