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...
Future Lending Hinges On Loan Trades
There is a new paradigm floating around the commercial real estate investment community today it is that mortgage debt is worth more than the real estate...
Will the Loan Trade Market Finally Open Up?
For some time now, there has been a virtual standoff in the real estate loan investment and trading marketplace. Investors with access to capital have...
Savvy Fund Managers Seize Opportunity
Real estate investment funds have been on a capital-raising binge for the past two quarters, drumming up in excess of $20 billion in the first quarter...
How Downgrades Force Institutional Selling
In late February, investment analysts at Merrill Lynch downgraded the stocks of mortgage investment giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A few days later,...
