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MBA Commercial Real Estate Finance Convention and Expo 2011 MBA Cref Convention and Expo 2011 will take place February 6 – 9, 2011 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA.  Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound is pleased to sponsor this premier industy event which gathers thousands of commercial real estate industry professionals from across the country to […]

IMN – Winter Forum 2011:  Laguna Beach, CA Financial Compound to participate in IMN’s Eight Annual Winter Forum on Real Estate Opportunity and Private Fund Investing.  Conference is to be held January 12 – 14, 2011 in Laguna Beach, CA at the Montage Hotel. Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound will describe some of its transactions from 2010 and share […]

Commercial Real Estate Finance:  California Shopping Center Loan Refinance Commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound arranges a $13.5 million refinance for an 76% leased, former K-Mart anchored retail center that was repositioned after Kmart went dark and left the center 20% occupied.  Prior to Kmart’s bankcrupty filing, the property was 100% occupied for many years.  The K-Mart […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  Cutting edge pricing and loan terms Commercial mortgage lenders have come back relatively strong in 2010 from the prior 2 years.  Today ten year fixed rate loans are available with rates as low as 4.5% to 4.75%, along with 30 year amortizations.  For 5 year the rates are as low as 3.9%.  Loan […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders: Los Angeles Commercial Mortgage Broker hires new staff Attention commercial mortgage lenders.  Commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound, based in Santa Monica, CA, welcomes John Lopez to its staff.  John started in the mortgage brokerage business in 1996 after graduating from Yale University and UC Hastings College of Law.  In 2004 he transitioned to […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders active in land financing Commercial mortgage lenders, despite the credit crunch, continue to provide land loans as well as joint venture equity capital for land, both for entitled land financing and un-entitled land financing.  This according to commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound who works with the handful of commercial mortgage lenders focusing on land transactions […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  Show us your deal and we’ll find you the lender Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound has been referred to by industry participants as the marvel comics superhero for commercial mortgage lenders.  We can parachute in and take control of the borrower’s financial operations and analysis, forming a financing request from the ground up.  We place […]

Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound arrange this 65% of all-in-cost land acquisition and entitlement loan for a 7 acre infill residential site in Southern California.  A tentative tract map is expected within four months of loan closing that would allow for 150 town homes. In addition to the land purchase, the financing provides funds for entitlement, interest […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  $13.5 million loan modification and extension This commercial mortgage lender originated a loan on a well located mixed use property in Los Angeles.  At the time of loan maturity, the property was mostly vacant with no practical refinance in sight.  Commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound worked with the borrower and lender to help determine a […]

Apartment loans:  $9 million loan workout and refinance for portfolio in Los Angeles Commercial Mortgage Broker Financial Compound resolve these non-performing apartment loans, secured and cross collateralized by an apartment portfolio in Los Angeles.  We structured a loan refinance with the existing lender accepting a discounted payoff of the loan, as well as waiving prepayment penalties.  Financial Compound […]

Commercial real estate finance:  Financial Fridays October through December 2010  Join us for commercial real estate Financial Fridays, our weekly underwriting training sessions.  We are opening up the laboratory to new prospective staffmembers and those curious to learn about what goes on under the hood of a financial instrument.  University of Financial Technologies takes place at noon on Fridays in our conference room in Santa […]