Commercial real estate professionals shuffled through a film set and gathered at stages five and six at the Lot at Formosa Wednesday morning — and after chatting over coffee and some very-L.A. breakfast burritos, they heard from Ethan Penner, the pioneer of commercial mortgage-backed securities running for governor.  Penner is an independent candidate and a decided long-shot in our Golden State, but you would not have known the latter as he made his case to a room full of decision makers in a studio in West Hollywood.  He set his premise with a fundamental question: Is real estate still all […]

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