Four months after announcing its intention of selling some $500 million in non-performing construction and commercial real estate loans to a newly created joint venture with an unrelated third party, Popular Inc. said Thursday it has walked away from the deal.
FirstBank Puerto Rico recently sold a couple of office buildings in Fort Lauderdale for $2.3 million, or 62 percent off their foreclosed mortgage value, according to the South Florida Business Journal.
Local drugstore operator Farmacia Sally has secured a $1.5 million loan from Scotiabank de Puerto Rico to build a second location in Río Grande that will be completely “green,” company officials said.