Online Financing

The Internet brings efficiencies to commercial real estate financing, but it does not change the fundamental process.

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November 5, 2000, 10:00 AM PST

By Laura Kraft


The Internet brings efficiencies to commercial real estate financing, but it does not change the fundamental process.Within the past year, more than a dozen commercial real estate financing Web sites have been launched, each promising, to one degree or another, to bring efficiency, standardization, liquidity, and speed to the plodding, paper-intensive, $200 billion commercial real estate mortgage market...(The full content of this article may only be available to ULI members.)

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