Regulators Voice Real Estate Angst
The high concentration of commercial real estate loans made by community banks is gaining the attention of the chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller...
Borrowers' Fate Rests On Refi Options
During the booming real estate market of the previous five years, creative financing dominated the landscape. Investors were demanding high leverage in...
Distressed Deals Hard To Find
So far, all signals from commercial real estate investment analysts point to very low delinquency and default rates, particularly in the CMBS and CDO...
Back to the Basics for Wall Street
The offices of Wall Street's rocket scientists are silent these days, particularly as the work of these number-crunching gurus relates to the real estate...
Standoff in Secondary Markets
There has been a deafening silence in the secondary trading pits for commercial real estate-backed loans over the past two months. This comes as investment...
Small Hedge Funds Fare Better in Turmoil
Hedge funds and private-equity firms dominate commercial real estate and play a significant role with residential space as well. However, when these funds...
Just How Severe Will the Correction Be?
In recent weeks, hardly a day has gone by without a news headline pointing to a residential mortgage lender or investor that has either closed shop, ceased...
Liquidity May Be Drying Up
For the past six months, analysts and market observers have been contrasting the performance of single-family housing and commercial real estate. Conventional...
Hedge Funds Wield Clout in Real Estate
The size of offerings for commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations has been growing by leaps and bounds during the last...
Investors Opt to Play Risk Curve With Mezzanine Loans
Without a doubt, the landscape of competition for commercial real estate is stiff. And the entrance of aggressive foreign investors, along with an enormous amount of lingering liquidity, continues to drive returns lower. ...
