<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><title><![CDATA[ FinanceBoston: Blog]]> </title><subtitle><![CDATA[ FinanceBoston: Blog]]> </subtitle><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.financeboston.com/atom.ashx" /><link rel="service.feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.financeboston.com/atom.ashx" /><updated>2012-05-19T22:59:57Z</updated><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog</id><entry><title><![CDATA[ Investing for Green Cards ]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=31" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=31</id><published>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ The granting of a permanent residency visa, or Green Card, to foreign investors]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001IUb7nZgjNi1IM]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Interest Rate Update]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=30" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=30</id><published>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ We are securing very low interest rates on debt financing. ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=wuiguwcab&amp;]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Student Housing]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=29" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=29</id><published>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ During the turmoil in the commercial real estate markets over the past few years there has been one shining star that continued to perform remarkably ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="color: #000000;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Development is Back]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=28" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=28</id><published>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ Construction financing for development projects is making a comeback. ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Having experienced something of a drought in new real]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Real Estate Outlook 2011]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=25" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=25</id><published>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ I have given My assessment of the outlook for commercial real estate and residential real estate in 2011. ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: v]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Real Estate Outlook 2011 - Residential extract]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=26" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=26</id><published>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ From our Real Estate Outlook for 2011, here is the Residential piece. ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It&rsquo;s a good time to take p]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Real Estate Outlook 2011 - Commercial extract]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=27" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=27</id><published>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ From our Real Estate Outlook for 2011, here is the Commercial piece. ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It&rsquo;s a good time to take p]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Covered Bonds]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=24" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=24</id><published>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ Covered Bonds could provide US banks with an alternative to Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS).]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) are now ]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Multifamily Development]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=23" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=23</id><published>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ One asset class that has continued to trade through the doldrums is multifamily housing (Apartments, Student Housing, and Assisted Living). ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: ver]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Young Graduate Renters]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=22" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=22</id><published>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ It is not surprising that a recent survey conducted by Apartments.com has highlighted a robust job market as being the number one concern for recent c]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It is not surprising that a rec]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ What Crash? ]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=21" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=21</id><published>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ Private equity funds and REITs have amassed huge war chests of cash in anticipation of an impending commercial real estate crash.  
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<div>]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Chasing the Money - Massive Decline in Lending]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=4" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=4</id><published>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ It will surprise nobody to hear that in 2009 bank lending had its sharpest decline since the Great Depression.  I am all too aware of this fact each d]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
<p style="margin: 0pt; ]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Commercial Real Estate Sales Rise from the Floor]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=20" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=20</id><published>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ December showed a 75% jump in commercial real estate sales over November.  This would normally be a headline grabbing statistic if taken out of contex]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="margin: 0pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">December showed a 75% jump in commercial real estate]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Provisions and Reserves at Banks]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=5" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=5</id><published>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ You would be forgiven for thinking that banks are not lending any money right now.  Some actually are - you just need to know which ones.  Luckily for]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You would be forgiven for thinking that banks are not lending a]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Banks' Debt Mountain]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=6" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=6</id><published>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ While grappling with pending debt maturities corporations are not alone in struggling to figure out where to refinance these debts.  Would you believe]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">While grappling with pending debt maturities corporations are n]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Massachusetts Home Sales on the Rise]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=7" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=7</id><published>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ October marked the fourth consecutive month for a rise in the volume of single family home sales in Massachusetts, which showed a 17.2% increase compa]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">October marked the fourth consecutive month for a rise in the volume of single family home sales ]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Stagnant Foreign Investment in US RE]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=8" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=8</id><published>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ 2009 will be one of the leanest years for foreign investment in US real estate.  It is estimated that it will close out the year with $5 billion inves]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">2009&nbsp;will be one of the leanest years for foreign investment in US real estate.&nbsp; It is ]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Spanish banks]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=9" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=9</id><published>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ The past few years have seen the two largest Spanish banks (Santander & BBVA) become dominate players on the world stage as they have been on a shoppi]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The past few years have seen the two large]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ US banks "problem list" at a 15 year high]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=10" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=10</id><published>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ The number of US banks on the FDIC "problem list" has risen to its highest level in 15 years.  It now stands at 416 banks with $229.8 billion of asset]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The number of US banks on the FDIC "problem list" has risen to it]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Global real estate transactions on the rise]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=11" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=11</id><published>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ For the first time in 18 months global real estate transactions have risen quarter over quarter.  However the main contributor to this increase was fr]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">For the first time in 18 months global real estate transactions have risen quarter over quarter.&]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ The end is nigh! ]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=12" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=12</id><published>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ The end is nigh! Of what you may ask; our economy, the financial system, sustained growth, or leverage?  How about the recession?  

There's a refre]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The end is nigh!&nbsp; Of what you may ask]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Home builders amassing land banks again.]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=13" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=13</id><published>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ In a sure sign of land prices bottoming out, home builders have begun to acquire land in prime locations to add to their land banks for future hosing ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">In a sure sign of land prices bottoming out, home builders have b]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Latest from Boston commercial market]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=14" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=14</id><published>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ Boston office rents have seen steep declines to levels not seen since 2001.  The average office rent in Greater Boston now stands at $28.11 per square]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Boston</sp]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Commercial Real Estate is next!]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=15" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=15</id><published>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ What cliché should I use to describe the current situation with commercial real estate? 
 
"Waiting for the next shoe to drop"; or "The elephant in ]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What clich&eacute; should I use to describ]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) Update]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=16" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=16</id><published>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ As a follow up to my last PPIP Blog I have had a lot of inquiries from clients as to how the PPIP could benefit them.  As it is currently structured t]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">As a follow up to my last PPIP Blog I have had a lot of inquiries from clients as to how the PPIP]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Commercial Real Estate, the next shoe to drop?]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=17" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=17</id><published>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ There are many opportunities created in down cycles and we must be poised to take them.  We may be over the worst in the housing market, but next up i]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">As we close out a sixth straight week of stock market gains you w]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Residential Housing]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=18" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=18</id><published>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ We have watched the housing market decline since mid 2006, probably one of the longest periods of declining prices in US history.  There appears to be]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">We have watched the housing market decline]]> </content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) - Geithner, Show me the Money!]]> </title><link rel="alternate" href="http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=19" /><id>http://www.financeboston.com/blog/view.aspx?id=19</id><published>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</published><updated>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</updated><summary><![CDATA[ The new Government program geared toward allowing the private sector to receive Government financial support for the purchase of so-called toxic asset]]> </summary><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.financeboston.com/blog"><![CDATA[ <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">
<p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-]]> </content></entry></feed>
