How did the commercial real estate industry react after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early spring, and where are we now? Dianne Crocker, principal analyst at LightBox, answers those questions and more in …
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The real estate industry is vastly different than it was just a decade ago. The market is strong, fueled by an expanding economy and consistently low-interest rates. Keeping up with demand and meeting…
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Phoenix reception honors the first class of mentee graduates
Inspired by the Developing Leaders Award category at the annual PRISM conference, LightBox created a mentor program in January 2019, in collaboration with Truist…
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NOTE TO READERS: This article was published by National Mortgage News on August 29, 2019, and is reprinted here with permission from the publisher.
Author: Dianne Crocker
July 1, 2019, was an important…
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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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NOTE TO READERS: Below is an article that was just published in the Summer edition of the EBA Journal. The focus is on how broad trends like office-using job growth, site reuse and …
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If you want to know how broader mega trends are impacting commercial real estate investment, you can’t do better than CBRE’s Spencer Levy. We were the lucky ones to have him deliver the…
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Are opportunity zones the “greatest thing since sliced bread?” or a “scam?”
On Tuesday in Manhattan, I moderated a track at the Mortgage Bankers Association of New York’s Fifth Annual Real Estate &…
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The agency’s action brings its appraisal threshold in line with federal bank regulators.
The U.S. Small Business Administration just announced an important change to its 7(a) and 504 loan program appraisal requirements, effective…
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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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