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Zillow Turns Price Estimates Into Cash Offers

Fix-and-flip investors have a deep-pocketed new rival: Zillow Group, which has begun taking its hotly discussed “Zestimates” and making them into cash offers. So reports Bloomberg. Read more...

SEC Sues Over Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Ratings

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint against Morningstar’s credit ratings business for alleged securities violations in its ratings of commercial mortgage-backed securities. So reports Reuters. Read more...

Fed Includes Commercial Real Estate in Stress Tests

The Federal Reserve has revealed the scenarios it will use in its 2021 stress tests of large banks, and “substantial stress” in the commercial real estate market is among them. So reports Reuters. Read more...

Fintech Cadre Launches Fund for Small Real Estate Investors

Fintech firm Cadre has announced a $400 million fund aiming to make it easier for individuals to invest in commercial real estate. So reports The Real Deal. Read more...

Investment Startup Focuses on Fix-and-Flip Mortgage Loans

AlphaFlow, a money-management startup that purchases real estate loans from lenders, has sold $95 million in bonds based on fix-and-flip loans. So reports Bloomberg. Read more...

SoFi Is Now Offering Investment Property Loans

Online bank SoFi, in the headlines recently for its plan to go public, has also quietly begun making its mortgage loans available to investors. So reports The Motley Fool. Read more...

Avoid These Commercial Real Estate Acquisition Snafus

Depending on property and tenant data from the broker or seller without verifying it independently is No. 1 on the list of the top 20 blunders to avoid when acquiring commercial real estate assets. So reports GlobeSt.com. Read more...

Amazon Vows $2B for Affordable Housing in Employment Hubs

Amazon has committed to investing more than $5 billion in the next five years on building and preserving affordable housing in three of the company’s main hubs for employment. So reports The Verge. Read more...

Commercial Real Estate Investors Face Difficult 2021

As the world puts 2020 in the rear view, the real reckoning for U.S. commercial real estate owners may be still to come. So reports MarketWatch. Read more...

Values of Distressed Manhattan Retail Properties Plummet

Real estate borrowers who are already struggling to pay the mortgages on their Manhattan retail properties have also been hit with a sharp cut to those properties’ assessed values. So reports MarketWatch. Read more...

HelloOffice Gets a New Name: Raise Commercial Real Estate

HelloOffice, a tech-based commercial real estate brokerage, is now greeting clients under a new name: Raise Commercial Real Estate. So reports GlobeSt.com. Read more...

Commercial Real Estate’s Rebound Could Be 'K-Shaped'

Morgan Stanley has projected a “K-shaped” bounce for commercial real estate, with bonds backed by industrial properties doing well while those on hotels, retail and offices languish. So reports Bloomberg. Read more...

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