Financing Today
Bondholders Face Possible Worst-Case Scenario
As loan defaults increase, even the most secure investors could get stung...
Asset Managers Running Out of Options
Savvy asset managers able to step in and cure delinquent and defaulted loans through buyouts and workouts...
Trading Distressed Debt Gets Murky
For many investors attempting to buy distressed real estate debt and for lenders seeking to sell, the process has taken an ugly turn. For potential buyers,...
Bridge Loans to the Rescue
The reality of fewer conventional lending sources, combined with mounting sentiment that more distressed real estate may be about to hit the marketplace,...
Investors Target Funds
There is significant jockeying for position in what is turning out to be a radically altered commercial real estate investment and finance landscape....
Growing Fears Over Maturing Loans
Scavenger investors are circling like buzzards over property investors as they embark on negotiations with creditors on maturing loans. In a deleveraging...
New Set of Lenders Is Chomping at the Bit
There's a swelling industry chorus predicting sizeable declines in commercial real estate values over the next 18 months. A number of indices suggest...
Bondholders Fare Best In Takeover of GSEs
For nine months, commercial mortgage brokers, bankers, and their multifamily investor clients had been feeling what the rest of the world undoubtedly...
Bond Market Signals More Defaults Ahead
When the Federal Reserve Board met on Aug. 5 to set monetary policy, with the exception of a lone dissenting member, all voted to keep the Fed funds rate...
Fending Off Scavenger Investors
It is no secret that armies of fund managers are on the hunt for distressed real estate and struggling mortgage investors. Against that backdrop, the...
