Commercial mortgages

Armada Analytics, a commercial real estate underwriting and asset management services provider, acquired Anabranch Flood, a provider of flood risk assessment services.

Laurance H. Freed, a Chicago developer, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $825,000 in fines and restitution in connection with a double-pledging scheme.

Insurers are seeing modest gains in market share as banks, facing increased scrutiny from regulators, lightly tap the brakes.

Colony American Finance has been rebranded as Corvest American Lender in the wake of equity and asset acquisitions by funds affiliated with Fortress Investment Group.

The Pennsylvania bank's mortgage performance contributed to stronger loan growth, fee income and profits.

The Pine Tree Plaza in Sterling, Ill., will be auctioned online after a string of tenant departures put the property in foreclosure.

Goldman Sachs is marketing nearly $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds backed primarily by office and retail properties.

The Property Assessed Clean Energy program entails a priority lien that critics dislike, but one lender ran the numbers and liked them enough to take out a PACE loan itself.

ExactBid has released new automation that allows exchanges of information between its lender appraisal-workflow technology and its appraiser reporting system.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group say it's not too late to bet against commercial mortgage bonds, even if parts of the trade have become crowded this year.