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In the world of real estate investing, when a sector gets 'hot,' it generally stays hot for a long time--perhaps a decade or more. And then it doesn't just peter [...]

Last year, Tony Adkins was ranked by an industry trade publication as the 10th-busiest originator of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans. What's particularly noteworthy about that achievement is Adkins [...]

As with housing in general, the mortgage banking industry is facing a demographic problem--but it's a little more serious than just millennials not buying homes and not getting mortgages. ¶ [...]

Making mortgage loans for condo purchases is kind of tricky business. But some new players have come on board with tools to simplify things. The standard line about condominiums is [...]

It's been a long and winding road filled with mergers and acquisitions to get to the place where CCRE is today. The company is a model of today's multiproduct platform [...]

A new real estate capital-source conglomerate has a chance to grab dominant market share. Pillar Financial LLC offers soup-to-nuts loan products, services and veteran expertise. Corporate mergers are like marriages: [...]

Mortgage technology companies tend to come and go, like comets whooshing across the night sky. Many of the smaller ones blaze for a moment in time before lack of funds, [...]

One of the first high-profile pro footballers in the United States to make it big in the real estate/mortgage banking world was Dallas Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach. He retired from [...]

In September, Capital Square Realty Advisors LLC, Richmond, Virginia, announced it had acquired Bridgeview Apartments, a 348-unit, class-A, multifamily community in Tampa, Florida. ¶ Capital Square specializes in commercial real [...]

Casey Crawford, co-founder and president of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Movement Mortgage, stands 6'6' tall and was so athletic that he was selected in the 1995 Major League Baseball draft by [...]

In September 2012, Walker 8z Dunlop Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based commercial mortgage banking company, completed the acquisition of a competitor, CWCapital LLC, Boston. It was Walker 8z Dunlop's biggest acquisition [...]

Dale McPherson, chief executive officer of Austin, Texas-based Field Asset Services Inc. (FAS), believes in miracles. Not metaphysically or abstractly, but in the literal sense. And it would be fair [...]

Although Paul Mass, president of La Jolla, California-based ClosingCorp Inc., eschews the label 'serial entrepreneur,' he and his business associate, Tony Farwell, co-founder and vice chairman of the board at [...]

In February, Jones Lang LaSalle Capital Markets, Chicago, announced it had secured $98 million in senior financing for the acquisition of a 1,200-unit apartment complex in Framingham, Massachusetts. The buyer, [...]

Through extraordinary happenstance and probably a little bit of personal charm, John Keratsis, founder and chief executive officer of Boston National Title Agency LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina--based title and [...]

When a business executive can say his company is the largest privately held firm in a particular fast-growing industry, one would assume the executive entered the business with a firm [...]

In 2005, E.J. Burke was asked to take over the real estate finance unit of Cleveland-based Key Corp. Officially, he would become executive BBI vice president of KeyBank Real Estate [...]

Without a doubt, you have to be careful in the AVM [automated valuation model] space,' cautions Darius Bozorgi, president and chief executive of Santa Ana, California-based Veros Real Estate Solutions. [...]

Back in January 2009, a blogger calling himself 'Mr. Mortgage' wrote an online column with the startling headline that began with the words: 'The End of Large-Bank Wholesale Lending.' * [...]

In June, Iceland's government raised $1 billion through the issue of five-year bonds at a yield of just under 5 percent. The terms, according to the Central Bank of Iceland [...]

In November 2009, a Toronto investor placed a crazy, low bid during an auction for the Silverdome stadium in Pontiac, Michigan. Once the home venue for the National Football League's [...]

For the last four years, through the heart of the recession, the commercial real estate market has taken a pounding--and along with it, the lenders that financed all those transactions [...]

Since the start of the year, enervated Republicans, who have taken a controlling majority in the House of Representatives, have been looking to chop billions from the federal budget. One [...]

The University of Wisconsin (UW) Credit Union, Madison, Wisconsin, prefers to be ahead of the technology game. Although it's a decent size for a credit union, with more than 154,000 [...]

Back in 1893, Stewart Title Guaranty Company began operations in Galveston, Texas, and just like physical movement in the humid, coastal environment along the Gulf of Mexico, growth had been [...]

Most people who meet Jack Cohen, CMB, chief executive officer of Chicago-based Cohen Financial, come away thinking, 'Now, there's a really smart guy.' * The trouble is, in today's tumultuous [...]

How to judge the state of Florida's housing market? * It's not an easy question to answer, because the Sunshine State's housing sector has been in the dumps longer than [...]

Back in 2001, a Mortgage Banking magazine article made note of a specialized firm set up to battle mortgage fraud, and the author of the article, in colorful prose, wrote, [...]

What a long, strange trip it's been for Cheryl Lang, president and chief executive officer of Integrated Mortgage Solutions (IMS), a Houston-based collateral-protection company for the mortgage industry. * Back [...]

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the Omaha, Nebraska--based holding company run by America's foremost investor, Warren Buffett, can count investments in more than 50 different companies, ranging from manufacturing and telecommunications to [...]

In February 2009, a portfolio of seven office buildings owned by Younan Properties Inc., Woodlands Hills, California, transferred into special servicing, reported Bethesda, Maryland-based CoStar Group Inc.; in October, seven [...]

Here's one prediction for 2010: a record 4 million single-family home foreclosures. That's going to mean a lot more work for loan servicers already under fire for their inability to [...]

During the holiday season in 2009, a large box arrived at the headquarters of Evergreen Home Loans in Bellevue, Washington. When it was opened, 40 stuffed-animal rabbits spilled out. The [...]

Early in 2009, Atlanta-based HT Group LLC bought five Tennessee shopping centers of about 320,000 square feet total for $1212 million from Glen Waverley, Australia-based Centro Properties Group. The company [...]

When Barry Katz wants to make the definitive point about Orange County, California, he uses this dramatic statistic: In 2002 and 2003, out of the top 50 metros in the [...]

Movement Mortgage has its roots in pro football. Its founds team has big goals ahead. One is to originate one out of every 10 home-purchase loans 10 years from now. [...]

When you look around Michael Ashley's extensive office, many fascinating items attract your attention. One in particular catches your eye almost immediately. It's the seared auto-racing suit he wore when [...]

In the history of technology companies and financial backers, Del Mar Data Trac Inc. (DMD), San Diego, boasts one of the more unusual stories. The mortgage banking technology firm has [...]

When Paul Wright first joined Newport Beach, California-based DRI Management Systems Inc., he flew down to Orange County from Seattle, where he was living at the time. The first thing [...]

With the conduit market in full collapse over the past 18 months, developers, owners and managers of commercial real estate have turned to an assortment of other capital sources--mostly life [...]

The most famous Crockett associated with Tennessee is none other than Davy, who as the song says, 'killed him a bear when he was only 3' and then, when considerably [...]

Are two heads better than one? At Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, apparently the answer is yes--because the Des Moines, Iowa-based subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., the San Francisco banking [...]

A number of familiar names in the mortgage technology industry, such as MortgageHub Inc., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and Dynatek Inc., Livonia, Michigan, will begin to disappear this year. It's not due [...]

At the beginning of this year, when Henry Schwendimam, a principal with Q10/Bonneville Mortgage Co., a Salt Lake City-based provider of commercial real estate financing, was asked what kind of [...]

The basic tenet of commercial real estate is that demand drives development. However, at certain periods during the past two decades, the availability of inexpensive capital changed the equation and [...]

Although David Brecher doesn't really like rehashing a corporate history that has nothing to do with him, he knows the questions will come. * Brecher is chief executive officer of [...]

The cameraman had already established his space. The actress would enter the room from the left side of the screen and make her way to an empty seat in what [...]

Last July, Rick Coppola, managing director and head of commercial mortgage investments for New York-based TIAA-CREF, called in his team. The commercial lending market had shifted radically since the beginning [...]

McClair Mortgage Corporation, Flint, Michigan, does things differently. It is one of the few independent mortgage brokers in the country functioning on Linux, a Unix-like computer operating system, instead of [...]

In the aftermath of the subprime meltdown and the subsequent liquidity crisis beginning in the summer of 2007, there has been a lot of post-trauma analysis laying blame hither and [...]