Mar 10
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The Cautiously Optimistic Re-Emergence of Lenders

  By Jay Wagley, Executive Vice President & David Leach, Analyst Debt & Equity Finance CBRE/Dallas   Every year in early February, mortgage bankers and lenders from around the country gather at the MBA Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF) conference.  For the past twenty years, I have attended the MBA and noticed that every year [...]

Author: Wayne Kress
Oct 12
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Interest Rates Calm Now, But…

CBRE Capital Markets Services produces a regular eNewsletter that comments on happenings in the world of commercial real estate finance.  It includes a feature from Bloomberg that projects interest rates quarterly for each of the coming four quarters.  This projection is the result of surveying the financial industry.  Survey says?  As of their most recent [...]

Author: Wayne Kress
Aug 19
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Rising Interest Rates = Decreasing Purchasing Power

All that federal stimulus money‘s gotta be paid back, and the economists we follow are pretty near certain this means inflation will come back.  As if to prove this, long-term interest rates are already rising (they’ve been trending back up since January…see this CBRE Capital Markets report for more: http://bit.ly/2aGlai).  What this means is you [...]

Author: Wayne Kress