This Saturday, the Jacob Crouch Foundation of Lafayette will host its annual Crouchstock fundraiser.  Headlining the event will be Ronnie Milsap, Jaryd Lane and local band Mageez.  This is the sixth time this event has been held to raise money to support educational programs for suidicide prevention and awareness. “The event is mainly to focus [...]

The difference between commercial real estate and residential are found in the types of properties being purchased. Commercial refers to land or buildings, while residential refers to homes. Also a significant difference is commercial properties are ones that earn income. The types of property for purchase can be divided into four divisions; retail, office, industrial, [...]

Written by: Leslie Turk Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Site Selection, a national expansion planning publication, has ranked Louisiana Economic Development the No. 1 state economic development agency in the country. The official publication of the Industrial Asset Management Council, the magazine this week announced its 2010 Competitiveness Awards, which for the past nine years have [...]

With continuing challenges facing banks and other sources of credit in support of commercial real estate, evidence of commercial real estate as a focus of policy attention was increasingly visible at year-end 2009. FOMC minutes from late in the year, for example, singled out commercial real estate, noting that it was lagging behind broader economic [...]

The paralysis in the CMBS marketplace exacerbated the challenges faced by bank lenders in managing their legacy portfolios in 2008 and beyond. Efforts to reignite securitization while managing the consequences of its previous excesses have been slow going. With that in mind, and in the face of increasing pressure on banks to modify problematic commercial [...]