CREFC's Alex Ong and Andrea Rouse.

On Tuesday January 15 in the middle of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council’s January 2013 conference, The Mortgage Observer was joined by conference attendees for our event celebrating the conference at Miami’s STK. The Collins Avenue bar and steakhouse played host to industry insiders and Observer Media Group staff, who spent an evening talking shop as well as enjoying a selection of hors d’oeuvres and custom cocktails.

This year's conference was once again held at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel and was full of vital information for those involved in commercial real estate debt. Registrations were up from the past several years, as attendees--one after the other--shared a sunny outlook for the year ahead.