Nova Consulting Becomes ENERGY STAR Partner
Nova Consulting Group Inc., which provides services in the areas of environmental management, compliance investigation and corrective action, has become an ENERGY STAR...
PPR Expands U.S. Retail Service To Include Micro-Market Analysis
Property & Portfolio Research (PPR), a provider of commercial real estate forecasts, has enhanced the granular data available in its U.S. retail property...
StreetMac Aligns With Urban Retail Properties
StreetMac, a Northbrook, Ill.-based commercial real estate financing firm, has formed an alliance with Chicago-based Urban Retail Properties LLC to advise Urban on...
Fitch Downgrades Capmark’s CMBS Servicer Ratings
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Capmark Finance Inc.'s commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) servicer ratings. Capmark's primary servicer rating dropped from CPS1- to CPS2-, its...
McKinley Funding III Appoints FIDAC Collateral Manager
Fixed Income Discount Advisory Co. (FIDAC) has been appointed the collateral manager for McKinley Funding III Ltd., a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that...
Treasury And Fed Launch TALF
The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board have formally launched the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), a component of...
Fitch Finds Correlation Between CMBS Loan Defaults And Weak Housing Markets
Weak U.S. housing markets and rising unemployment at the state level are leading indicators of deteriorating commercial property loan performance, according to Fitch...
NorthMarq Capital Expands With New Office
Commercial mortgage company NorthMarq Capital is opening a new office in San Diego in addition to hiring two industry veterans to operate as...
Q10 Capital, iCap Join Forces
Q10 Capital LLC and iCap Realty Advisors LLC are merging, and iCap offices will begin operating as members of Q10. This announcement was...
Voit Refocuses On Asset Services
Newport Beach, Calif.-headquartered Voit is rebranding itself, taking on the name Voit Real Estate Services and refocusing on commercial asset services. 'Voit will...
Professional Mortgage Co. Joins Q10 Capital
Professional Mortgage Co., located in Greenville, S.C., and Raleigh, N.C., has been selected to join Q10 Capital LLC, a national organization of independent...
Fitch: NY State Rent Regulation Changes To Pressure Large CMBS Loans
Proposed tenant-friendly changes to New York state rent regulations will adversely affect several New York City-based large multifamily loans backing U.S. commercial mortgage-backed...
Capmark CMBS Servicing Placed On Rating Watch Negative
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the corporate rating for Capmark Financial Group. Consequently, the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) servicer ratings for the group's subsidiary,...
BMC Capital To Open Two New Offices
BMC Capital LP will open two new offices in in San Antonio and Scottsdale, Ariz., for Small Business Administration, multifamily, and commercial loan...
JEMB Realty Launches Basis Investment Group
JEMB Realty, a real estate owner, developer and management company, has launched Basis Investment Group LLC to capitalize on the unprecedented opportunities in...
Private Commercial Mortgage Returns Turned Negative In Third Quarter
Following positive gains of 0.26% in the second quarter of 2008 and 0.82% in the first quarter of 2008, private commercial mortgages held...
CUNA Mutual Group, Lee And Mason Offer Commercial Foreclosure Insurance
CUNA Mutual Group and Lee & Mason Financial Services Inc. have partnered to offer a stand-alone commercial property foreclosure property and liability insurance...
Fitch: CMBS Loan Delinquency Rose Again
Defaults on three 2007 vintage loans ranging in size from $130 million to $225 million led to a 27 basis point (bp) increase...
Mission Capital Advisors Accepting Bids For $296 Million Commercial Portfolio
Loan sale advisor Mission Capital Advisors LLC is presently accepting bids for a commercial real estate mortgage loan and real estate owned (REO)...
CRE Lenders Expect Loan Production Increases In ’09
Fifty-three percent of nationwide lenders to the commercial real estate sector expect loan production to increase in 2009 versus 2008, according to findings...