Financial Digest

Potomac Realty Capital hires Alburez as CCO

Potomac Realty Capital, LLC has hired Ricardo Alburez as their chief credit officer. Alburez will oversee the underwriting of all their tran...

Fantini & Gorga arranges $7.8 million refinancing for 3 properties

Fantini & Gorga has recently placed $7.8 million in permanent financing for a group of three properties in southeastern N.H., including McFa...

Back Bay completes $40 million financing with GE Capital Solutions

Back Bay Restaurant Group completed a deal with GE Capital Solutions, franchise finance totaling $40 million. The financing continues their ...

Goedecke & Co. arranges $7.15m financing for Union Sq. Apts.

The Boston office of Goedecke & Co., LLC has recently closed an acquisition financing for Union Sq. Apartments located at 301 Union St. The ...

Leff of Wells Fargo closes on $26.25m loan for Residence Inn

Wells Fargo has closed a $26.25 million loan for the construction of a Residence Inn by Marriott. Susan Leff of Wells Fargo Middle Market Re...

5 key risks to lifetime retirement income: what to do in 2008

If you have been following the markets these past few months, you may be wondering if the strategies that have grown your retirement nest eg...

Fantini & Gorga release 2nd quarter 2008 lender survey

Fantini & Gorga has just released its second quarter 2008 Lender Survey. What's the news? Markets remained unsettled. Spreads rose, lender u...

Credit markets: Risks, stimulus and the search for financing

For a significant period of time, the only concern with respect to financing in the commercial real estate sector involved the quality and s...

Knee-jerk collateralizing due to economy rather than the deal

Typically in financing a deal, lenders underwrite a loan relying on the project's cash flow; they use financial covenants, such as a debt se...

Preparing for financing readiness

While the capital markets remain in flux and all lenders are deciding what they want and where they want to be in the financing market, ther...