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HomeLight | September 13, 2019

HomeLight has partnered with residential sale-leaseback company EasyKnock to bring American homeowners more options when leveraging their home equity. The company explained in a press release that its agent matching technology will now be available to EasyKnock homeowners. Additionally, through the partnership, EasyKnock will offer HomeLight’s customers access to its Sell and Stay program, as well as its MoveAbility program....

Bisnow LLC | January 16, 2020

Invesco Real Estate recently acquired Bravern Office Commons, which is fully leased to Microsoft, for $585M. The complex includes 305K SF of retail occupied by Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and others, and a seven-level subterranean parking garage with 3,134 stalls. Two residential towers include 455 units. NKF’s co-Head of U.S. Capital Markets Kevin Shannon, Vice Chairman Nick Kucha, Senior Managing Director Michael Moll, Executive Managing Directors Ken White, Rob Hannan and Tim O’Keef...

Business Wire | January 15, 2020

MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software solutions, announces that funds managed by Harvest Partners, LP, a leading private equity firm, are making a substantial strategic investment in the company. Harvest Partners joins existing investors TA Associates and GI Partners as institutional shareholders in MRI. At the same time, TA Associates is also making a significant new investment in the business. These investments will enable MRI to bolster innovation across its end-to-end offerin...

WORLD PROPERTY JOURNAL | January 14, 2020

Based on the Mortgage Bankers Association's 2020 Commercial Real Estate Finance Outlook Survey, following what is expected to be a record year of lending in 2019, commercial and multifamily mortgage originators anticipate 2020 to be another strong year. Nearly two-thirds of the top commercial/multifamily firms (64 percent) polled expect originations to increase in 2020, with one-in-six (16 percent) expecting an overall increase of 5 percent or more across the entire market. When forecasting ...