{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/paulwashingtoncommercial-com\/2026\/09\/10\/commercial-lending-is-opening-new-doors-embracing-performance-over-perception\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","slug":"commercial-lending-is-opening-new-doors-embracing-performance-over-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/commercial-lending-is-opening-new-doors-embracing-performance-over-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Lending Is Opening New Doors | Embracing Performance Over Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/paul-e-washington\/comm-new-doors\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>U.S. commercial mortgage originations increased 16% year over year in Q2, pointing to stronger borrower and transaction activity.<br \/>\nAlternative lenders accounted for 38% of non-agency loan closings, creating more competition outside traditional bank financing.<br \/>\nTighter spreads are improving financing conditions for stronger commercial properties and borrowers.<br \/>\nBrokers can increasingly add value by comparing banks, debt funds, life companies, and other specialized lenders.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. commercial mortgage originations increased 16% year over year in Q2, pointing to stronger borrower and transaction activity. Alternative lenders accounted for 38% of non-agency loan closings, creating more competition outside traditional bank financing. Tighter spreads are improving financing conditions for stronger commercial properties and borrowers. Brokers can increasingly add value by comparing banks, debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulwashingtoncommercial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}