By David Repka, Co-Founder Bison Financial Group Let’s face it, the last few years have been astonishingly difficult for anyone in the “dealmaking game” as fear, uncertainty and doubt have crept into the capital markets driving reliable sources of capital to the sidelines. No pocket of capital has been picked as clean as construction funding [...]
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Not really. While there is frothy excitement in social media circles that Warren Buffet’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is mentioned in the same sentence as “distressed real estate” his firm is a special servicer, not a buyer of distressed real estate. One of his holdings, Berkadia, has a portfolio of $240 billion and is [...]
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Earlier this year, commercial real estate had all the hallmarks of a distressed asset sale of the millennium. Across America, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of office buildings, hotels, apartment complexes and malls were tanked up with debt and rapidly tanking in value. They were so far under water, conventional wisdom had it, that [...]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4TqcnID77c] D.C.-area developer Jeff Neal gives the Huffington Post Investigative Fund a tour of empty commercial properties just blocks from the Capitol. He says we were, “drunk on a binge of easy credit and the bartender (the market) took away the bottle (credit).” BLOGGER COMMENT: Private equity groups are looking to double down. They are [...]
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CMBS Savior? Developers Diversified Deal Is Nearer – WSJ.com Posted using ShareThis By LINGLING WEI A closely watched deal that may help uncork the commercial-property debt market is picking up steam after being threatened by some queasiness by the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the matter. The Fed is sending signals that its [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal By Anusha Shrivastava Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–About $12 billion in consumer loan-backed deals have emerged ahead of a loan-application deadline for cheap funding under a Federal Reserve program. Issuers include Ford Motor Co. (F) unit Ford Motor Credit, Chesapeake Funding LLC, Nissan Motor Co. (NSANY) and [...]
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By Jody Shenn on Bloomberg.com Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Investors asked the Federal Reserve for $2.3 billion of loans against commercial-mortgage-backed securities created before this year, an expansion from $668.9 million in its financing program’s first round a month earlier. The central bank got no requests for newly issued bonds backed by loans on skyscrapers, [...]
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By David Repka I attended an Urban Land Institute (ULI) conference a few weeks back. During the coffee and continental breakfast I overheard someone being asked, “How’s business?”. Their reply, “I’m surviving… but survival is the new good”, got me thinking about Charles Darwin. The key to understanding the parallels between Darwin and the crisis [...]
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By Scott Lanman June 16 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve received no requests from investors for loans to buy new commercial mortgage-backed securities under an emergency program aimed at reducing borrowing costs and reviving U.S. economic growth. The New York Fed announced the absence of loan requests on its Web site today, the first monthly [...]
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New CMBS Issues Will Become Eligible for Government Aid at Mid-Month, But Some Fear S&P Action Could Blunt TALF’s Ability to Restore Liquidity By Randyl Drummer in CoStar June 3, 2009 With commercial mortgage securities poised to become eligible for government help later this month, investor interest in the Federal Reserve’s fledging loan program to [...]
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