Commercial Mortgage News

SBA 504 Industrial Loans in the Inland Empire: The 2026 Buy-vs-Lease Math for Owner-Users Data current as of October 17, 2026. Covers owner-occupied industrial property in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Rates move monthly, so re-check them before you sign anything. An Inland Empire SBA 504 loan closed this quarter carries a fixed rate just...Read More

Data current as of September 26, 2026. Covers Los Angeles County, Orange County, and the Inland Empire (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties). The Fed raised rates on September 16. First hike since 2023. Nine days later, the 10-year Treasury closed at 5.17%, the highest level since 2007. That’s the backdrop for the Los Angeles commercial...Read More

I get asked about San Diego more than any other California market outside of LA right now, and the questions are almost always about two property types. Industrial, because everybody read the headlines about Otay Mesa and wants to know if the party is over. And medical office, because it is quietly the best-performing commercial...Read More

We’ve been financing commercial property up and down this coastline for thirty years, and I can tell you 2026 is one of the strangest markets I’ve ever seen. Not bad. Strange. You got office towers in Santa Monica sitting roughly a third empty while a warehouse in Torrance leases half a million square feet to...Read More

Financial Compound has been placing commercial debt since 1996, and I’ll give it to you straight — the San Francisco office file that lands on my desk in 2026 isn’t a purchase, and it isn’t really a refinance either. It’s a negotiation. The borrower doesn’t need a rate quote. He needs to know what happens...Read More

California Bridge Loan Rates in 2026: What You’ll Really Pay, and How to Qualify California bridge loan rates in mid-2026 are running anywhere from the mid-6s to north of 11%, and the gap between those two numbers is the whole ballgame. Same state, same month, same product name. What changes is the deal, the sponsor,...Read More

The California commercial mortgage market turns a page this month, and so does the country. July 4, 2026, marked 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The semiquincentennial, if you want the official mouthful. I don’t. What I want to do is what a lender would do with any file that’s been open for two...Read More

Inland Empire commercial real estate refinancing in 2026 is a different animal than it was three short years back. Michael’s been placing commercial debt since 1996, and I’ll give it to you straight — most of what crosses my desk this year isn’t a purchase. It’s maturity. Loans written in 2015, 2016, a whole stack...Read More