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A PROPOSED PLAN REQUIRING MANDATORY RETROFITS OF WOOD-FRAME AND CERTAIN CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN LA… …has been announced. It’s an important step towards creating a more resilient city, but concerns have […]

MULTIFAMILY LENDERS ARE BIG BUSINESS FOR FREDDIE MAC. For multifamily lenders, small loans are big business. Small loans are estimated to make up almost 30% of the multifamily market. In […]

BY JAY GRENFELL, LEED AP |Published December 1, 2014  Published in California Mortgage Finance News San Francisco’s recent adoption of a Mandatory Soft Story Retrofit ordinance is highlighting in a new way that […]

IN AN EFFORT TO BECOME MORE COMPETITIVELY INVOLVED IN THE SMALL BALANCE LOAN MARKET… In an effort to become more competitively involved in the small balance loan market and to […]

BOTH THE U.S. AND THE U.K. HAVE IMPLEMENTED REQUIREMENTS FOR CORPORATIONS… …to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. In the 1970s the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a rule […]

TRENDS IN THE HOUSING MARKET ARE ON THE UPSWING Trends in the housing market are on the upswing, and the stock market has shown remarkable earnings in the past year, […]

REQUIREMENTS TO UTILIZE MORE INNOVATIVE, OUT-OF-THE-BOX SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS CONTAMINATED PROPERTIES When dealing with contaminated properties in residential and commercial settings, many developers are leveraging the cleanup process not just […]

KEN SISK DISCUSSES HOW A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT… … will deliver a better-designed, more valuable project. When it comes to Brownfield redevelopment, a multi-disciplinary approach that leverages civil engineering […]

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS CAN CAUSE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND A RANGE OF OTHER AILMENTS. It’s still summer, and flu season is a distant memory (or, if you are the type that […]