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Debt & Equity

Transactions: Meridian Capital’s new $1.08M mortgage in Brooklyn, GCP Capital’s $289M of mortgage financing

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Meridian Capital announced the following transactions: A new mortgage of $1,080,000 was placed by Meridian on a three-story, six-unit multifamily property located on Diamond Street in Brooklyn, NY. The loan features a rate of 2.88% and a three-year term. This transaction was negotiated by Morris Diamant and Mendy Spielman. New...
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Guardian Life lends on Jersey purchase

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Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) secured acquisition financing for The Brownstones at Englewood South, a 350-unit, Class A multi-housing community in Englewood, New Jersey. Working on behalf of the borrower, HFF placed the seven-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan with Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. The Brownstones at Englewood South is...
Banking powerhouse accuses Fed of misleading Americans
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Banking powerhouse accuses Fed of misleading Americans

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William Rhodes, a retired senior vice chairman and senior international officer at Citigroup and Citibank, urged the Federal Reserve to make a move on interest rates, saying that the agency has “misled people” with their indecisiveness. “Every governor in the Fed feels they have to have a press conference once...
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Taconic refinances Apple building with $89M MetLife loan

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Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. has secured an $89 million refinancing for 401 West 14th Street, a mixed-use retail and office building anchored by Apple Inc. and located  at the entry to the Meatpacking District. HFF worked on behalf of the sponsor, Taconic Investment Partners LLC, to place the 15-year, interest-only, fixed-rate...
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Roundtable puts positive spin on IRS partnership audit plan

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The influential Real Estate Roundtable has produced a white paper partnership audit reform that it believes might save the real estate industry from financial carnage. “The partnership audit provisions are extremely complex, and amending them is no easy task. Last summer we felt that the approach under consideration would have...
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Greystone feeds hungry small balance borrowers to tune of $500M

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Greystone, a real estate lending, investment and advisory company, has originated over $500,000,000 in volume under Freddie Mac’s Small Balance Loan offering. The first approved Freddie Mac SBL lender to reach this milestone, Greystone has provided over 180 Freddie Mac SBL mortgages, generally ranging from $1 million to $5 million,...
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World Trade Center rebuilding paying off for Port Authority

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NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation has released a new analysis showing that the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey​ ​is poised ​to recover nearly all of its anticipated $16.76 billion investment in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. The report, entitled “Surprise! World Trade Center Rebuilding Pays...
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CBRE Group enjoying double-digit growth

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CBRE Group, Inc. reported robust revenue and earnings growth for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015. Revenue for the quarter totaled $2.7 billion, an increase of 19 percent. Fee revenue increased 14 percent (21% in local currency) to $1.9 billion. The third quarter of 2015 included approximately $237 million...
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Pembrook closes $32M student housing mortgage

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Pembrook Capital Management LLC (Pembrook)announced the closing of a $32 million first mortgage loan to The Shrine Collection, LLC to acquire and renovate a student housing complex in Los Angeles near the University of Southern California (USC) campus. The complex, known as The Shrine Collection, is comprised of 11 one...
CPC bridging money gap for small multifamily building owners
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CPC bridging money gap for small multifamily building owners

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The Community Preservation Corporation, Inc. (CPC), a not-for-profit affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization lender, announced the closing of its first eight loans under the Freddie Mac Small Balance Loan (SBL) Program. Totaling $23.7 million, the loans will support 275 rental units in small buildings in Yonkers, New York City, Syracuse,...