Stephen Jacobsen, senior managing director, Mesirow Financial, describes how capital markets have improved and how lenders are becoming increasingly active in placing loans in the net lease space.
There has been $30.3 billion in new CMBS issuance to date in 2013, according to Commercial Mortgage Alert. That puts the industry on pace to smash last year’s volume of $48.4 billion and will make 2013 the busiest year for CMBS issuance since 2007. Where do you think total CMBS issuance volume will end up in 2013?