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WASHINGTON — The Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, which represents buyers and sellers of investments backed by commercial property loans, spent $120,000 in the second quarter lobbying the federal government.
That's down about 29 percent from the $170,000 the trade group spent in the first quarter, and down 14 percent from the $140,000 it spent in the second quarter last year.
The trade group lobbied on issues related to banking, securities, commercial real estate capital market finance, securitization, credit rating agencies, financial services regulatory reform, terrorism and catastrophe, flood and bond insurance, according to a disclosure report filed July 20.
Besides Congress, the group lobbied the Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
