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        <Description>&lt;p&gt;I own a commercial mortgage portal known as C-Loans.com, and we exhibited at the annual Mortgage Bankers Association Commercial Real Estate Finance Conference&amp;nbsp; in Orlando, Florida last week.&amp;nbsp; The attendance was just a fraction - maybe just 30% - of last year's attendance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was attendance so low?&amp;nbsp; It's a reflection of the level of commercial lending activity right now.&amp;nbsp; Banks and conduits simply aren't making a lot of commercial real estate loans right now.&amp;nbsp; And when commercial mortgage lending volume is down by 70%, so is the fee income of most commercial real estate lenders.&amp;nbsp; Commercial banks and commercial mortgage banking companies simply couldn't afford to send their agents to attend the conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember thinking as I manned the C-Loans exhibit booth the first morning, &amp;quot;Gee, I guess the big surge will come tomorrow.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; In reality, the pathetic first day of the conference ended up being the &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;busiest&lt;/span&gt; day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are not good times for the commercial real estate lending business.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately I own a hard money commercial lending company known&amp;nbsp;as Blackburne &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Brown, and we are receiving a nice volume of loan requests right now.&amp;nbsp; The reason why is because the banks are turning down most new commercial real estate loan requests right now.&amp;nbsp; If you happen to need a commercial real estate loan, please &lt;a title="Apply directly to George Blackburne, the owner, for a commercial real estate loan." href="http://www.c-loans.com/hard_money_loan_application.html"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; If you fill out the little &lt;a title="Apply directly to George Blackburne, the owner of Blackburne &amp; Brown." href="http://www.c-loans.com/hard_money_loan_application.html"&gt;mini-app&lt;/a&gt;, it comes directly to me,&amp;nbsp;George Blackburne,&amp;nbsp;the owner&amp;nbsp;of Blackburne &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Brown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</Description>
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                  <Title>C-Loans Commercial Mortgage Lender Databank</Title>

                  <Synopsis>Free Databank Containing the Loan Rates of 750 Commercial Rea Estate Lenders</Synopsis>

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