--- title: Commercial Mortgage Activity Seems To Be Picking Up description: The commercial mortgage market appears to be picking up some steam. --- [![c-loans-logo-2025](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/c-loans-logo-2025.png?width=183&height=86&name=c-loans-logo-2025.png)](https://c-loans.com) [Terms of Use](https://www.c-loans.com/terms-of-use) | [Disclaimer](https://www.c-loans.com/disclaimer) | [Blog](https://info.c-loans.com/) # Commercial Loans and Fun Blog ## [Commercial Mortgage Activity Seems To Be Picking Up](https://info.c-loans.com/bid/84456/commercial-mortgage-activity-seems-to-be-picking-up) Posted by [George Blackburne](https://info.c-loans.com/author/george-blackburne) on Sat, May 18, 2013 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) As the owner of [C-Loans.com](http://www.c-loans.com), the largest of the commercial mortgage portals, I sit in a somewhat unique location to observe the commercial real estate loan market.  From my point of view, commercial mortgage activity seems to be picking up nicely. [![Apply For a Commercial Loan to Blackburne & Sons](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc) 1. At [Blackburne & Sons](http://blackburneandsons.com/pricing-matrix.html), the private money commercial mortgage company, we maintain a board listing all of the loans we have in process.  That board seems fuller right now than at any time in the past six years. 2. A large number of participating banks reported that they had commercial mortgage loans in process for C-Loans this month. 3. Our "big hitters" (former lead buyers who earned their listings on C-Loans by closing at least five loans for us) are reporting a nice number of closed deals for the month. [![Free List of 3,159 Commercial Lenders Sort By Your Own Criteria](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/edc33fe8-9d87-477b-bf2f-07a33d3d2d24) It makes sense.  The housing market has been roaring back over the past year.  My oldest son, George IV, is trying to buy his first home in Sacramento; but speculators, paying all cash, are paying 120% of asking price for homes under $200,000.  He just can't move fast enough. It therefore makes sense that banks are becoming more confident about making commercial real estate loans.  If residential property is enjoying a bull market, its not hard to see the commercial property market rebounding from its 40% drubbing.  My hard money mortgage company lost a $1 million commercial loan to a ***credit union*** last month.  The credit union made the loan at 4.5%, with no appraisal and no toxic report. Hopefully this is the start of a commercial loans frenzy, where several hundred new banks will enter the commercial mortgage market and start to make a serious volume of deals.  There is six years of fruit that has ripened in the commercial real estate market.  A bank would be smart to try to book some commercial real estate loans *right now* at 5.5%, before competition forces them to drop their commercial loan rates down to 3.75%. 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