Financial Digest

Jasie of Pioneer Financial secures $3.85m refinancing/purchase loan

Pioneer Financial Group, LLC recently placed financing in the amount of $3.85 million on behalf of T&A Properties LLC. The transaction inc...

Renovations to old beach home into "Big Houses"

This summer, there seemed to have been an awful lot of house-warming parties at newly refurbished or built summer places. Fortunately for m...

Market's turmoil and economic turbulence persist

The vitality of our local commercial market and substantial institutional construction activity are both foils to the market turmoil and eco...

The bird man of Quetzal mountain

While on a recent trip to Costa Rica to visit our globe-trotting son, we had the fortunate occasion to meet the "Bird Man of Quetzal Mountai...

Leaders react: Investors compel tighter underwriting

*Volatility in the Debt Markets *Are CMBS Delinquencies Too High? *Quiet Market but Plenty of Tension *Has Lending Peaked? *How Credit Got S...

President's message: Capital market's impact on real estate

The booming investment sales market could not last forever. Flipping properties and largely debt-financed purchases of trophy properties wi...

Appraising antiques in the computer world: Part 1

Did you ever stop to think, as I have, about what of all the new technologies today will most radically change our lives? The 15th century s...

Nickerson places $14.484m loan for the construction of a Big Y

Doug Nickerson, Nickerson Financial Corporation, has placed a loan on behalf of Merchant Wilbraham II, LLC in the amount of $14.484 million ...

How financing affects the entire real estate market

I think many people have underestimated the influence that financing has on the real estate market. Although most people can see how lower ...

The glass is half full: Slow down in the R.E. sector

Real estate brokers, mortgage lenders, home inspectors, appraisers and closing attorneys are all feeling the slowdown in the real estate sec...