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Guelda Voien

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Past articles by Guelda:

The 51 Artists, Curators, Directors and Dealers Changing the Art World in 2018

However overused it might have become, there still are a handful of contemporary artists who truly live up to what it means to be avant-garde. These are the influential makers, curators, gallerists and institutional directors at the center of our most intense debates, and who, in our eyes, are doing something not just new but different in today's art world. → Read More

No One at the Wheel: What Will Driverless Cars Do To Real Estate?

To say that the introduction of driverless vehicles will have both macro and micro effects is a macro understatement. → Read More

Stonemont Buys Triple-Net Portfolio for $1.3B With J.P. Morgan-Led Financing

Atlanta-based investor Stonemont Financial has acquired a massive portfolio of net-leased real estate accumulated by Oak Street Real Estate. → Read More

RXR Inks 14K-SF Lease With Austrian Bank At 75 Rockefeller Plaza

Erste Group Bank AG, a Vienna-based financial services provider, has leased the entire 12th floor at 75 Rockefeller Plaza. → Read More

Goldman Sachs Provides $78M Takeout Loan On Texas Retail Redevelopment

The two-year, floating-rate loan on a Texas retail center was brokered by JLL. → Read More

Sterling Bay Secures $121M From Acore Capital for Chicago Office Revamp

Chicago-based developers Sterling Bay have scored a $121 million loan from Acore Capital to revamp a nearly vacant office building. → Read More

Minskoff’s West Village Condo Project Nabs $80M in Construction Financing

A boutique residential condominium project in the West Village has picked up $80 million in construction financing. → Read More

Bank of the Ozarks, Brevet Capital Loan $218M to Build Orlando Hotel and Resort

A JW Marriott hotel and resort in Orlando, Fla., secured $218 million in construction financing brokered by Walker & Dunlop. → Read More

Billionaires’ Row Supertall Causes Row–Are Michael Stern and PMG In Trouble?

A judge today temporarily blocked a loan on rising luxury condominium building 111 West 57th Street → Read More

Starwood Provides $105M On Meatpacking Restoration Hardware Site

Bobby Cayre's Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate today closed a $105 million loan backed by its Meatpacking District property 9 Ninth Avenue, sources close to the deal told Commercial Observer. → Read More

Paramount Is Poised To Take 2 Herald Square–Unless Alpha Equity Comes Up With $5M

Embattled 2 Herald Square will be turned over to Paramount Group in 30 days unless Alpha Equity Group makes a $5 million deposit. → Read More

Fosun Seeks $800M Floating-Rate Refi for 28 Liberty Street

Fosun International is seeking $800 million in floating rate financing for the fee simple interest it owns at 28 Liberty Street → Read More

Bank of the Ozarks Funds Construction of DDG Partners’ Chelsea Condos

DDG Partners received a $29 million construction loan from Bank of the Ozarks to begin work on 532 West 20th Street. → Read More

CBRE’s Tom Traynor and James Millon on Making the Move From Banking to Brokerage

A Q&A with two large loan specialists at CBRE. → Read More

Eichner Mulled $125M Inventory Loan on Flatiron Condo Before Sales Perked Up

Ian Bruce Eichner is in talks for a $150 million inventory loan on Madison Square Park Tower from First Republic Bank. → Read More

Goldman Sachs Provides $127M CMBS Loan For Southern Calif. Hospital Buy

Easterly Government Properties secured $127 million towards its purchase of Loma Linda Ambulatory Care from Goldman Sachs via a CMBS conduit → Read More

Show Me the Yield: Debt Funds Have Become So Competitive…Is Anyone Getting Paid?

Restrictions on lending have made it more appealing than ever to be an alternative debt fund, causing the sector to overheat. → Read More

Willy Walker on Dodd-Frank, CMBS and the Forthcoming Economic Renewal

An interview with the chairman of Bethesda-based. Walker & Dunlop. → Read More

Mack Real Estate Provides $200M Bridge Loan for Nascent 520 Fifth Avenue Project

Ceruzzi Partners and SMI USA, the duo developing 520 Fifth Avenue, closed a $200 million bridge loan from Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies → Read More

JLL Secures Lucrative Freddie Mac Loan For Acquisition of L.A. Senior Facility

JLL arranged a $39.2 million permanent loan from Freddie Mac for the purchase of a senior living home in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. → Read More