Two Florida communities attract thriving health and life science clusters that boost economic growth and job gains.

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What do the high-tech industry’s “Silicon Hills” have in common with Massachusetts’s largest metropolis, the nation’s energy hub, the financial capital of the world, and the City by the Bay? The answer: job growth, and it is fueling real estate development.

Donating underused land could be key to building workforce housing—and kicking off a construction rebound.

The Trepp, LLC survey showed commercial mortgage spreads basically unchanged during the past month and unlikely to change barring a systemic collapse in the capital markets, which certainly is possible in our uncertain and volatile economic and political times. In our view, a systemic problem of any magnitude will likely lead to lenders looking for someplace to hide, with liquidity prized and unavailable for borrowers except the most creditworthy ones.

The Trepp, LLC survey showed spreads basically unchanged during the most recent survey period. Subject to an unpredictable “black swan”-like event (which is certainly possible in today’s uncertain and volatile capital markets), the balance of this year is likely to be range-bound by lenders instituting floor pricing in the 4.0 percent to 4.5 percent range.

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The Trepp, LLC survey showed spreads coming in as much as 10 basis points, an incredible amount given the turbulence affecting the credit markets, i.e., LIBORgate; Euro-crises; increased CMBS delinquencies, and widening spreads in CMBS new issues, to name just a few. Maybe it’s the heat as no one seems to be using these spreads to actually price borrower cost, relying solely on floor pricing.

Following the resort bust in 2008, many developers, investors, and lenders in the condo-hotel market were left with broken projects. However, they can minimize their losses by converting those properties into traditional hotels or by selling or renting them as multifamily units.

The Trepp, LLC survey showed spreads unchanged during the survey period as the markets continued to languish, waiting for…the Supreme Court, the EU and European Central bank, the Federal Reserve, the heat wave baking the majority of the country to abate…who knows. Meanwhile, lenders continue to quote loans at rates based upon floor pricing which remains very attractive.