GSEs modernize income, occupancy checks to slash loan risk

Two companies have signed for close to 32,000 square feet of office space at 11 Bryant Park Plaza. Dog food delivery service Spot & Tango took 15,931 square feet on the entire seventh floor of the Midtown office building, while advertising intelligence firm MediaRadar moved from a sublease at the property to a direct deal…

More telling is the ratio of low-priced home sales to sub-$100,000 originations, roughly three to one before the pandemic, widened to nearly four to one by 2025 and 2026. “Small mortgages are not simply fading because lower-priced homes are harder to find; the financing itself has become harder to access,” said Joel Berner, senior economist…

The global push for green energy has also spurred the growth of emerging technologies that make considerable use of platinum group metals (PGMs). This has the potential to make platinum mining stocks a great long-term investment. For example, electric vehicles (EVs) require PGMs for their lithium-ion batteries.  Furthermore, another application for PGMs has recently emerged…

The rise of data centers tied to artificial intelligence remains the biggest news in commercial real estate in the first half of 2026. But if you strip out the booming data center segment, construction starts in the CRE sector have slackened to a pace resembling the sluggish crawl in the aftermath of the Great Recession,…

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