Matt Valley

Perhaps it is just a drop in the bucket, but the tax rebates that the U.S. Treasury will send out to more than 130 million American families and individuals beginning in May couldn't have come at a better time...

ATLANTA — Memo to hotel owners from lodging executive John Murray: If you need a Ph.D. in mathematics to understand a proposed complex finance structure put forth by a mortgage broker or investment banker, it’s likely...

Stay in the game until 2010 and protect your assets. That's the message Tom Wratten, the retired founder and CEO of Principal Commercial Acceptance, is delivering to the commercial real estate investment community...

ORLANDO – How severe is the current shakeout in the mortgage lending business? The number of industry professionals, including both residential and commercial operations, has fallen from 504,000 at the peak to 369,000...

Just as we were putting this issue to bed, news broke that the Federal Reserve had extinguished a fire in the global stock markets by lowering its federal funds target rate by 75 basis points to 3.5%. While some...

Announcements of write-downs tied to mortgage-related debt at some of the nation's top financial institutions continue to roll off the newswires like cars on an assembly line. In late December, Morgan Stanley reported...

With 2007 barreling to a tumultuous close, many investors are struggling to assess the state of the commercial real estate industry, which from a capital markets perspective is in chaos. Is the credit crunch and...