Putting the ROAD Act into action faces a funding and HUD gauntlet
One executive says the lack of action backing up that promise has nothing to do with not wanting to send deals to a particular broker. DJ Christofferson (pictured top), executive partner at NEXA Lending and co-founder of Dodoche, said the real problem is that referral partners forget about the broker they just made a connection…
With America’s debt mounting and oil prices on the rise again, the bond market has been gripped by a sell-off this week. Market jitters were first triggered last week, following Scott Bessent’s plan to have the Treasury as much as double its long-dated bond purchases. The move briefly quelled yields, but they rose again as…
With the Bank of Canada widely expected to hold its overnight rate at 2.25% for the sixth consecutive time on July 15, balancing an inflation rate that climbed to 2.8% in April against GDP growth of only 0.5%, lenders are sharpening their focus on fee-generating wealth services that are less sensitive to rate cycles. Expanding the…
A cafe serving Asian and American cuisine is opening a fourth Manhattan location, Commercial Observer has learned. Café Hestia, a group of family-run delis, has signed a 20-year, 8,000-square-foot lease at the base of the Feil Organization’s 570 Lexington Avenue, which it will likely also use as a catering facility, according to tenant broker Kassin…
NYCHA has a new source of funding — that is, if tenants choose to take it. The first NYCHA development to join the New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust is Nostrand Houses, a 16-building complex made up of 1,148 units. The Sheepshead Bay property closed on $607 million in preservation funding to modernize the…
The former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer has been making bold stock calls on business-focused cable channel CNBC since the 1990s. In the mid-2000s, he launched his now-flagship show Mad Money, which airs weeknights at 6 p.m. ET. Cramer likes to go where the action is, so it’s only natural that he’s been talking a…