Market Update Blog

John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, says he’s done talking about which month the Fed will start to raise its benchmark interest rate. “I’ve sworn to myself that from now on the only months of…

Barry Slatt Mortgage recently held its annual breakfast panel event at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. In this clip UBS Managing Director Todd Pollack discusses the state of the commercial loan market, and shares his thoughts on what to…

Equity continues to enter the commercial real estate sector and push down cap rates for net lease properties, according to a new report from the Boulder Group, a commercial real estate firm located in suburban Chicago. After hovering steady at…

The real estate financing market took an unexpected turn in 2011 when a Michigan court rendered a decision which called into question whether non-recourse loans are truly non-recourse. The court in that case held that a lender could foreclose on…

Overly weak inflation and a lack of evidence suggesting price pressures are about to heat up means the Fed shouldn’t raise interest rates this year, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said in a speech Wednesday. “I think…

The financial world is overrun with industry wonks and prognosticators—each with a unique ability to predict the future. You’d be better off consulting the Magic Eight Ball than wasting your time with the typical rhetoric and opinion-based fodder. There is…