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Why banks are quietly dumping real estate loans
By Matthew Goldstein | The New York Times Some Wall Street banks, worried that landlords of vacant and struggling office buildings won’t be able to pay off their mortgages, have begun offloading their portfolios of commercial real estate loans hoping to …