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Crittenden National Real Estate Conference:  May 2-4, 2011 Las Vegas, NV This year’s Crittenden National Real Estate Conference is to be held at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas, Nevada from May 2-4, 2011.  This three day event for real estate professionals includes 8 hours of educational sessions and several networking opportunities.  The educational sessions […]

Hard money commercial loan:  downtown Los Angeles multi-family Commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound arranged a $500,000 acquisition loan for the purchase of a 20 unit apartment building south of downtown Los Angeles.  The loan was arranged from start to finish in 5 business days.  This 1920’s property is one of only three apartment buildings within an indusrtial […]

Commercial Mortgage Refinance: $8.25 million shopping center in Southeast This commercial mortgage refinance was performed by commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound for a well located, older shopping center built in the 1940s.  The center is unanchored and consists of 150,000sf of rentable area.  Most of the leases expire by 2015.  For this $8,250,000 commercial mortgage refinance Financial Compound […]

Commercial Mortgage Lenders:  Northern California Redevelopment Commercial mortgage lenders with the assistance of commercial mortgage broker Financial Compound perform a high-leverage refinance a 125,000 square foot retail center as part of the property’s redevelopment into a “Fashion Anchored Value Oriented” shopping center.   This 1980’s built, multi-tenant center had been anchored by an 90,000 s.f. hard good retailer with an additional 20 […]

Commercial Mortgage Lender refinances 100 unit apartment complex in Los Angeles, CA Commercial mortgage lenders appetite for apartment loans in southern California remains voracious from both agency and portfolio lenders.  With the low market vacancy rates and stable cash flow that many southern California apartment properties provide, commercial mortgage lenders are able to offer attractive borrowing costs to their borrowers.  For example, Financial Compound […]

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 […]