{"id":121762,"date":"2026-02-03T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:25:08","slug":"nyc-real-estate-giant-enters-boston-market-sba-bans-green-card-holders-from-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121762\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC real estate giant enters Boston market; SBA bans green card holders from loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City real estate giant SERHANT. is making a move in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The founding agents joining <a href=\"https:\/\/serhant.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SERHANT.<\/a> in Boston include: Michael L. Carucci, Antonio Khoury, Jorge Sariego, Kyle Farrell and Joe Albano, the firm announced. SERHANT.\u2019s expansion to Boston also marks a homecoming for founder and CEO Ryan Serhant, who was raised in Topsfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaunching SERHANT. in Boston is a milestone for me personally and a key moment in our national expansion,\u201d said Ryan Serhant, Founder and CEO. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to enter the market with a group of founding agents who represent the very best of Boston real estate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boston housing market remains high with the median price of a home $830,000, according to Redfin.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a 30-year fixed mortgage rate is averaging around 6.10% to 6.375%, with 15-year fixed rates are lower, typically ranging from 5.25% to 5.818%.<\/p>\n<p>SBA bans green card holders from loans<\/p>\n<p>The Small Business Administration said in a policy note that green card holders won\u2019t be allowed to apply for SBA loans, effective March 1.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest by the SBA as it works to tighten loan restrictions and restructure the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, it tightened a requirement that businesses applying for loans must be 100% owned by U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or lawful permanent residents, up from a 51% standard.<\/p>\n<p>The SBA doesn\u2019t give out direct loans, except when they\u2019re related to disasters, but it works with lenders to distribute loans to small businesses.\u00a0\u2013 AP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City real estate giant SERHANT. is making a move in Boston. The founding agents joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,9,56,63,65,64,1491,34555],"class_list":{"0":"post-121762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news","14":"tag-real-estate","15":"tag-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}