Commercial Real Estate News for Tuesday April 24

Local and Regional Banks Double Down on Construction Lending for Apartments

Local and regional banks are making more loans on apartment properties, in some cases significantly more. In one surprising example, the busiest construction lender in the U.S. in 2017 was Bank of the Ozarks, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA), a New York City-based research firm.

The Future of Non-Bank Real Estate Lending: 10 Predictions for the Next 10 Years

Non-bank real estate lending has become much more prominent in the wake of the financial crisis as banks pulled back dramatically from this asset class, which played such a large role in causing the crisis.

Here’s How One Family Office Bought a Wind Farm. Now You Can Too

Due diligence resembles that of industrial real estate, but clean-power plants often require a different sort of financial and regulatory sophistication.

Brookfield’s New Venture-Capital Unit Eyes Real-Estate Tech Startups

Brookfield Asset Management is the latest global landlord to form a venture-capital unit to plow money into the growing number of potentially disruptive technologies in the real-estate business.