Brad Canada

Encore Bank sees modest gains, Bank of England struggles with losses, and Bank OZK expands its southeastern footprint with new branches in Georgia and Florida. read more >

The Federal Reserve’s seven interest rate increases last year raised borrowing costs and dried up loan demand, battering Bank of England’s nationwide mortgage operation. read more >

Crosspond Farms LLC, led by Brad Canada, bought the farmland about 10 miles south of Scott between Highway 161 and the Arkansas River. read more >

This week’s parade of million-dollar real estate transactions starts with an agri acquisition near Scott. read more >

Col. Glenn Business Center, a super convenience store in west Little Rock, a political strategist's Edgehill properties, the future home of a Conway hotel and a Little Rock manor make up the latest million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >

Affiliates of Zimmerman Properties of Springfield, Missouri, bought the Chapel Ridge project at 10401 Brockington Road in Sherwood. read more >

Recent real estate transactions include office buildings, a dollar store, a bank branch, apartment, residential rentals, garage, truck terminal and land. read more >

In Arkansas, the number of new bank offices appears to have popped up in the past 12 months after a decade in which the count declined by more than 10 percent. read more >

High-rise condo space in downtown Little Rock, a mixed-use commercial project in west Little Rock and an office building in North Little Rock provide a trio of recent million-dollar transactions. read more >

A 172-unit apartment project in southwest Little Rock weighed in at $6.2 million. Entities with common ownership were on either side of a $960,000 transaction in downtown Little Rock’s The Residences at Building 5. read more >

Ranking banks by assets, as Arkansas Business did in May, provides a good idea of the presence each bank has in the lending market. But if you want to know who is making money for stockholders most efficiently, ranking by return on equity is the way to go. read more >