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It's a "quiet" policy. They call it "extend and pretend." Rather than facing up to the write-downs that would otherwise be necessary, banks have been quietly extending performing loans for CRE properties that have lost much of their value. By stretching out loan maturities and allowing below mark...

Unable to reach the CEO? Emails get lost in cyberspace? Can't get voicemail messages returned? Sales training expert and a best-selling author Tony Parinello knows why it happens and explains how you can create winning voicemail messages during a recent interview with Remington Chairman Andy Bogd...

Say you or your client has sufficient collateral and a promising business plan, but the property is distressed, a payment has been missed, or foreclosure is a possibility. These are just some of the reasons a quick infusion of short-term commercial capital may be necessary. Whatever the need - Re...

Restaurants. Car washes. Bowling alleys. Gas Stations. They're all special purpose properties. They represent a huge category of commercial building types that have at least two things in common. They all have limited use. And they all have a tough go finding financing in good times as well as ba...

Deleveraging seems to be the order of the day for CRE investor groups in the U.S. Only the housing-finance agencies - Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development - and life insurance companies, as well as state and local governments, are bucking the trend, accordi...

The capital markets are getting a little tighter for cash poor CRE owners with mismatched loan-to-value properties. It seems owners with deferred maintenance items are being forced by commercial lenders to kick in some essential repairs. Banks are quietly doing it. So is HUD. What's driving these...

Don't look for banks to be making their way back into commercial real estate lending in any big way until 2012. That's the message in a recent Crittenden Report. What you can look for, the report says, are life companies and commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) becoming active CRE lenders...

evitalization of the commercial real estate community is finally on the upswing, according to a recent research report from NCREIF. Here are some of the encouraging indicators: Three consecutive quarters of positive returns and a one-year total return of 5.84% in the latest National Property Inde...

Few in the CRE community can avoid the pain of disappointment when it comes to finding traditional financing in a market repressed by the worst economic downturn in eighty years. No one is spared. Not commercial loan brokers who lose commissions when their traditional financing sources can't or w...

At last, there's light at the end of the tunnel! The CRE market appears to be thawing. Indicators are all over the place! The U.S. just had its best commercial property sales quarter in the past two years. A new SBA loan law gives small business owners greater access to commercial capital. And CR...