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...
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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...
Financing challenges faced by commercial property developers
Strong demand in major California markets like Los Angeles and the Bay Area helped spur the commercial real estate market in 2015, but the low yields offered by mortgage backed bonds are prompting some investors to move their money elsewhere. This is a concern for...
Vivint cancels sale to SunEdison
Business-minded California residents may be interested to learn that a deal between Vivint and SunEdison was terminated on March 8. Though SunEdison had previously planned to purchase residential solar developer Vivint, the deal fell through due to financing problems....
Companies admit to selling misbranded parmesan cheese
California residents may have heard about the three cheese companies that have pleaded guilty to misbranding and adulterating their parmesan cheese products. Each faces a $500,000 fine, and an executive of one of the companies could be incarcerated. The U.S....
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