Top of the List: KC's 5 largest commercial real estate firms

This week, the Kansas City Business Journal ranks the area's commercial real estate firms by total dollar volume of sales and lease transactions. The accompanying gallery shows the top five on The List. For the full List, subscribers can take a look at the weekly print edition of the Kansas City Business
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A show of unity at the EU summit and Bolton's appointment are steps toward harsher Western action against the Kremlin. by. Leonid Bershidsky. @Bershidsky More stories by Leonid Bershidsky. March 23, 2018, 8:09 AM PDT. Message for Russia. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg. Despite a
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When spring break arrives, college students tend to escape toward warmer climates and to shirk anything that seems like work. It might be said that some would rather get hammered than swing one. So it's fair to ask: Why would a dozen students from California State University at San Marcos, just a
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Three series of Radnor Re 2018-1 mortgage security notes totalling $424.42mn have been listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). The class B-1 series, the class M-1 series and the class M-2 series were reported yesterday. The largest of these was the $209.71mn Radnor Re 2018-1 class M2
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Tarek and Christina El Moussa may be the stars of “Flip or Flop,” but their own home, which just hit the market, could sell at a half-million-dollar … 2), she just listed the five-bedroom, 8.5-bath Mediterranean mansion with Dean Lueck of First Team/Christies International Real Estate, where Christina now
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For many years correspondent banking was something of a forgotten element in financial services. The main reason for this was inertia in the market; banks were perfectly content with their correspondent banking relationships and the utility of the SWIFT network, which evolved little for decades.
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Wires. Doctor says pledge may have lived if help was called sooner · Afghanistan: Car bomb near stadium kills 13, says official · NASA's Mars rover Curiosity marks 2,000th day on red planet · Tiger Stadium site gets new life as youth sports facility · Missouri attorney general subpoenas Greitens charity
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Technical analysis of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (ARI) stock includes the study of technical indicators and past trends. For technical analysis of stock and trends here we employ the use of tools such as trading volumes, Simple Moving averages, RSI (14), and ATR (14) to determine the
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A report from professional services and Big Four firm EY has shown that fintech businesses in the UK are embracing Open Banking, with 59% seeing the initiative as an opportunity to reconsider their collaborations. The study, which surveyed more than 30 UK fintech businesses, found that more than
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Every 10 years or so there is a banking crisis. We are due. However, the furthest thing from most people's minds with the Trump boom is a banking/financial crisis, except for a few folks at the Brookings Institution, who just released a paper entitled “Liquidity Crisis in the Mortgage Market.” You Suk Kim, of
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At the time, HUD investigated the matter and concluded the city's actions were “motivated either in whole or in part by the race, color, or national origin of the likely tenants.” However, earlier this month HUD announced a voluntary compliance agreement between the department and the city that resolved
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Muted price swings in currency markets underscores the synchronized nature of global output and a still-stable monetary trajectory — offsetting, for now, trade tensions. Traders may simply be complacent. Protectionist measures are sure to disrupt the real economy, with currency markets yet to price in
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An online mortgage company that claims it can close home loans 3.5 times faster than the industry average is expanding into Florida. San Fransisco-based Lenda says that, through its online platform, it can offer homebuyers loans quicker, cheaper and with less paperwork than traditional banks or
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Mortgage Bankers Association President David Stevens earnestly hopes Congress will agree to an explicit federal guarantee for mortgage backed securities (MBS) offered by so-called guarantors that would be nurtured to compete with and eventually supplant Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the
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More than half (54%) of OneFamily's customers are now taking advantage of an interest payment lifetime mortgage. By enabling homeowners to pay off the interest, the mortgage addresses one of homeowners' biggest concerns that capital will be eroded in their property. Now over 50% of mortgages
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Following in the footsteps of George Clooney, Diddy, and Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys are gearing up for their next big act: as tequila makers. During a recent interview with Tasting Table, the 90s boy band said it plans to come out with its own tequila, but that the group just needs to find a
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Gun Goddess Miss Fortune is the fifth Ultimate skin Riot Games has released, following Pulsefire Ezreal, Spirit Guard Udyr, DJ Sona, and Elementalist Lux. The skin comes with four different forms: Scarlet Fair, Zero Hour, Royal Arms, and Starswarm. You're able to toggle through the skins whenever
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Massachusetts' banking regulators went further than many of the other states, effectively putting Ocwen out of business in the state by prohibiting Ocwen from acquiring new mortgage servicing rights, prohibiting it from originating new loans, prohibiting it from servicing any mortgages in the state, and
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OpenClose has announced that long-time industry veteran Tom Rice has joined its growing sales team as Vice President Enterprise Account Executive, responsible for covering the West Coast territory. Rice has experience with multiple LOS platforms, as well as other enterprise-class mortgage
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In a new affordability analysis, BMO says the country's burgeoning millennial population will rescue the housing market from its current doldrums — but only for the next few years. “Millennial buyers and international migrants are cushioning the decline in detached home prices in the hottest markets,”
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