South End Capital (SECC) Managing Director Noah Grayson has reported 2015 commercial financing applications from small business owners and property investors grew dramatically over 2014 with late 2015 applications alone increasing 263% over the same quarter (Q4) in 2014. The seven-year-old boutique lender and finance firm received almost 2,200 loan applications in 2015 comprised of 1,436 small business loan requests totaling almost $690 million, and 760 applications of just over $660 million for non-conforming residential and small-balance commercial real estate investors.