New Orleans' Hotel Sector Faces Grim Prospects
As investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities braced for a significant impact on some real estate holdings as a result of Hurricane Katrina, the...
CMBS Issuance Hovers in the Stratosphere
Just when you thought the commercial real estate market should be taking a well-deserved summer breather, volume has exploded again. Total offerings of...
CMBS Volume Hits Record High
Perhaps it's time to sing a chorus of Happy Days are Here Again. Make that another chorus because the market for commercial real estate has been singing...
CMBS Deal Pipeline Bursting at the Seams
We're not sure that the commercial real estate industry is experiencing bubble-like conditions, but then again describing loan activtiy as merely frothy...
Buyers Get Leverage Jitters
OK, so maybe trees or their real estate equivalent, leverage don't grow to the sky. But for a while there, it sure looked to the commercial real estate...
CMBS Issuance in U.S. Breaks Another Record
Staggering volume, higher Treasury yields and bad news from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors didn't cause the wheels to fall off the commercial mortgage...
Undaunted By Unsettling Trends
As fictional character Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine might say about the state of commercial lending today, What, me worry? Retail consolidations,...
Where Have All the Good Loans Gone?
So much for sleepy Januarys. The commercial mortgage business started this year at warp speed, reports the Barron's/John B. Levy & Co. National Mortgage...
High Expectations for CMBS Market
We're hard-pressed to envision the commercial real estate crowd being any happier than it was in 2004. Commercial mortgage originations were up on both...
High CMBS Volume is Double-Edged Sword
We don't suspect that Sir John Templeton had commercial real estate in mind when he noted that bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism,...
