Rick Longpre

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• Commercial Real Estate Loans - Looming Liquidity Crunch for CMBS Loans

  Tue, April 05, 2016

  Do you have a commercial real estate loan in Santa Barbara coming due in 2016 or 2017? If so, you should start your planning early, especially if you currently have a CMBS loan and are thinking you will be able to go back to the CMBS market.

• Santa Barbara Commercial Real Estate - Good Times….Bad Times

  Fri, August 28, 2015

  For many, the economic collapse of the Great Recession is fading in the rear view mirror…but for even more, its image still fills the mirror. The U.S. economic news and commercial real estate news is, generally, rosy…even when the world political and economic news is not.

• Santa Barbara's Cabrillo Boathouse renovation project awaiting final approval

  Fri, August 14, 2015

  The Santa Barbara Planning Commission will review renovation plans for the Cabrillo Boathouse and Pavilion on Aug. 20.

• Political Insights - Trump? What is going on?

  Tue, August 04, 2015

  In times of scarcity and alienation, it’s more like bumper cars. Different groups feel their lanes are blocked, so they start crashing into one another.

• Low Cap Rates Driven By Macro Economics

  Sun, March 01, 2015

  As the year gets underway, the investment world is increasingly anxious about various global risks. The economies in the European Union remain challenged, and despite the European Central Bank’s commitment to quantitative easing, the fear is that stagnation is becoming ingrained throughout Europe and that Greece may leave the Union altogether.

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