By Nancy Leinfuss NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – RBS Commercial Funding on Friday priced a $309.7 million commercial mortgage-backed securities offering backed by multiple loans, the first sale of its kind in nearly two years and a benchmark for Read More
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Apartment Finance Today Conference Update
I am back from moderating an all-star panel discussion at the Apartment Finance Today Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Our topic: “Small but Mighty: Finding the Best Small-Balance Apartment Loan” was well received by a full house of real estate Read More
CMBS 2.0 – Is it Real? What does it look like?
Yesterday I spent an hour on a conference call with a national lender that is putting their money where there mouth is and has started to actively quote on income producing commercial real estate loans to be aggregated for a Read More
Bank cleanup delayed: Where are all those fish that were supposed to be in the barrel?
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 Read More
Is Commercial Real Estate a Zombie Filled Black Hole or Double Down Opportunity?
[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 Read More
CMBS Savior? Developers Diversified Deal Is Nearer
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 Read More
Crittenden Fall Commercial Real Estate Conference
Conference begins Monday, October 26th at the Ritz-Carlton in South Beach, Miami. The conference features 17 panel discussions and endless networking and deal making opportunities. You can still register online or you may register onsite beginning Monday. I’m moderating a Read More
CMBS Volume down 99.99% and cap rates only up slightly, huh?
BLOGGER COMMENT: For more stats download the file labeled “CMSA-Compendium” from the box.net widget on this blog. You may also want to see the graph detailing the 99.99% plunge in CMBS volume from my October 6, 2009 blog entry. Read More
CMBS Production Rocketship Falls to Earth in 2008-2009
BLOGGER COMMENT: The biggest problem facing commercial real estate is the capital markets’ lack of liquidity. CMBS issuance went from $230 billion in 2007 to $12 billion in 2008 to less than a billion dollars YTD in 2009 (my source Read More
Luxury hotels that borrowed during the boom face default
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_J28rip1Ms] The lingering recession is leaving $850 a night hotel rooms empty. Large, luxury hotels are in default with their lenders. Read More