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CommLoan has launched a new AI-powered quote generator designed to help commercial real estate mortgage brokers match deals with lenders in real time.The platform allows brokers to upload an offering ...

Nearly a decade since the commercial real estate industry’s first Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) loan ...

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are fixed-income investments backed by mortgages on commercial properties rather than residential real estate.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “there are no second acts in American lives.” And while the author of The Great Gatsby might have been referring to actors, auteurs and elected officials, he ...

Lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, as well as smaller companies, are showing more willingness to foreclose on troubled properties or offload non-performing loans, even if ...

Today's commercial real estate market is in distress and has been, across a variety of asset classes, for several years. The reasons are well-known. Less well known is possibly the surest solution in ...

When it is my turn to take the pen with this column, I try to provide a commercial real estate law topic that I think is sometimes overlooked by closely held businesses and condense the topic, within ...

We continue to see more troubling news about commercial real estate loans. We have been warning about this ticking time bomb on bank balance sheets for two years now. You have to engage in due ...