Overwhelmed Special Servicers Ramp Up Distressed Sales
After months of waiting, opportunity investors are finally getting a break....
Fitch: Distressed CMBS Hotel Loan Maturities to Peak by 2012
Although hotel property values have dropped as much as 50% from their peak in 2007, ratings agency Fitch forecasts that over the next 12 to 18 months there will be an increase in distressed asset sales, leading up to the largest concentration of CMBS hotel maturities in 2011 and 2012....
Dubai Scrounges for Cash as New Deadline Looms
The sandstorm that gusted from Dubai after the emirate asked for a delay in repaying $60 billion in debt has settled down for now, and world stock market jitters have eased amid news of a restructuring plan for nearly half the debt. ...
Bank Default Rates on CRE Loans Projected to Hit 4% in Fourth Quarter
Deterioration in property cash flow, erosion of reserves to cover shortfalls in debt service and little credit to refinance maturing mortgages all contributed to a higher default rate on commercial real estate mortgages held by depository institutions in the third quarter. That’s according to New York-based Real Estate Econometrics, which analyzed data recently published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)....
Commercial Real Estate: The Danger of Fighting the Last War
As embattled industries seek ways to regain their equilibrium in today’s struggling economy, more than a few investors in the commercial real estate sector have turned their attention to the recession of the early 1990s, thinking that today’s market is a repeat of what happened nearly two decades ago. ...
PwC Survey: Defaults Could Jump-Start Stalled Distressed Buying Opportunities
Despite rapid deterioration of commercial real estate fundamentals, equity investors have been frustrated with the lack of distressed buying opportunities. ...
Full Impact of Epic Hotel Slump Still to Come, Say NREI Webinar Panelists
The U.S. lodging industry finds itself in uncharted waters due to a global economic and financial crisis that has taken a severe toll on the net operating...
Lenders, Investors Square Off
In recent weeks, investors have been returning to the stock market in droves as heavy losses in equity and corporate bonds during the fall of 2008 and...
Distress? What Distress?
The ‘D’ word has been roaming the halls of most major real estate firms over the past year or so, but how real is the distress in commercial real estate and is anybody really jumping into buying troubled assets or loans, at least in a big way? ...
Coming to Grips With Those Toxic Assets
Are banks and other financial institutions playing a game of hide the pea with their troubled commercial real estate properties? Douglas Wilson, a self-described...
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