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The Small Business Administration urged its lenders to give struggling borrowers a break.

Most credit unions in South Florida are growing in assets, profitable and well rated financially – except for the biggest one.

The Small Business Administration issued a statement Oct. 20 “strongly encouraging” SBA lenders to allow borrowers facing financial difficulties to defer payments on their 7(a) and 504 loans for three months.

Many investors who have watched bank stocks take a beating for a year-and-a-half are starting to wonder if it’s time to jump in.

Stung by losses in the hundreds of millions from construction and development loans in Arizona and Florida, Marshall & Ilsley Bank plans to reduce the size of that portfolio by 50 percent during the next three years.

Newport on the Levee has landed a New York restaurant group and is in advanced discussions with a hotel company to fill two of the most high-profile locations at the entertainment complex.

Ed Horgan knows that a combination of location, price and charm is what sells condos, even in the most desperate of markets.

Dana Mower spent an entire career developing land across the Puget Sound region until a heart defect led him to expand into unlikely territory: the Bahamas.

With the jury still out on the impact of the largest development in the Mon Valley in recent years, local leaders are looking to smaller projects to rejuvenate the still-struggling community.

Commercial real estate brokers are picking sides over the potential merger of Washington Township and the city of Centerville.