Financial Digest

Infrastructure: If you don't fix repairs now, pay more later

There have been many recent articles concerning infrastructure investments and projects. The bridge collapse in Minneapolis further highligh...

State job gains persist and housing data stable

Moderate growth as measured by jobs and anecdotal data from the Federal Reserve's Beige Book shows Mass. continuing moderate economic activi...

New England Appraisers Expo to be held at Sheraton Framingham

The 2007 New England Appraisers Expo will be held on November 5th at the Sheraton Framingham on 1657 Worcester Rd. The event will be sponsor...

Boston development continues to move ahead on projects

Cranes will be sprouting like weeds all over the Boston area as the conditions are ripe for new development. The downtown market reported th...

Appraising environmentally impacted properties

Appraising properties that have suffered environmental contamination can offer significant challenges to an appraiser. Environmental contami...

Have we learned nothing about Federal Funds Rates?

Just a few weeks ago, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke reduced the Federal Funds Rate. All this to avert a credit crisis, or worse, th...

Is this the future today? New residential market problems

New residential market problems keep popping up. Things appear to be getting worse rather than better and clear end looms in sight. No one i...

Q10|NERR reps. borrower in $9M financing on 340,000 s/f facility

James Murphy of Q10| New England Realty Resources recently placed financing on a property. Q10| NERR represented the borrower in arranging ...

Sound commercial real estate fundamentals to override the 2007 capital market collapse

On August 29 I had breakfast with our company president who asked for "my view of the world." We were in the midst of a huge market correcti...

Fantini & Gorga releases 3rd quarter 2007 lender survey

Fixed-rate spreads - the difference between mortgage rates and treasuries with the same maturity - increased uniformly over the quarter. For...