For conservative investors, real estate may not seem like something that meets their goals. However, lending to those who are looking to buy homes, fix them and flip for a profit may help increase returns without increasing risk. In general, someone who invests in...
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Executives are positive about commercial real estate market
Many Californians are interested in or involved in the commercial real estate market. A report by Forbes Insights that was commissioned by CIT may be of interest to them. According to the report, executives in the commercial real estate industry are feeling generally...
Commercial real estate value on the rise in April
California investors who are looking to add commercial real estate to their portfolios may be interested to learn that in April, nationwide CRE valuations increased compared to the value at the end of 2015. It was also a 7 percent increase over the previous April....
Timing might be right for selling commercial real estate
Owners of commercial real estate who are waiting for market conditions to improve in California before selling their property might be interested in learning that analysts are predicting that overall improvement in the real estate market from the conditions that...
Increase in CRE loan loss rates
Commercial real estate developers were for the most part able to secure loans for their planned California projects more easily in 2015 as banks increased their commercial real estate lending activities. Banks were more eager to make loans last year for a variety of...
Paramount faces lawsuit over product placement dispute
California-based Paramount Pictures is facing a lawsuit from Wulong Karst Tourism, a Chinese tourism company, because Paramount was supposed to include the company's logo in its film "Transfomers: The Age of Extinction" and failed to do so. The China Movie Channel,...
Verizon strike could mean service outages
On April 13, almost 40,000 Verizon employees went on strike on the East Coast. The walkout could cause months-long delays in completing repair, reconnection and installation orders for the company's estimated 140 million mobile, Internet and cable subscribers,...
MetLife no longer a SIFI
Commercial real estate developers in California may have an additional potential source for needed financing now that MetLife has been able to get rid of its designation as a Systemically Important Financial Institution, or SIFI. The designation, which is one that...
Experts predict a challenging 2016 for commercial real estate
Commercial real estate investors have enjoyed several years of healthy returns thanks largely to robust demand in major markets like California, but analysts predict that 2016 will be a more difficult year. Stricter lending criteria introduced to prevent irresponsible...
Crowdfunding as a way to invest in commercial real estate
Some California residents may have long dreamed of being able to invest in commercial real estate. Previously, doing so was beyond the financial reach of most people. With the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012 and the advent of crowdfunded investing, commercial real...
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