The CMBS market is most likely not going to recover to the 2007 level of $234 billion, but is the market continuing to grow? With only $3.4B sales in 2009, the market clearly has a long way to go to get back to those numbers, but most Read more →
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — More than half of commercial mortgages packaged into bonds in 2007 and coming due next year may fail to refinance as maturities reach the most ever and lenders pull back, according to Standard & Poor’s. About $55 billion of property loans sold as Read more →
Interest rates are at the lowest levels in decades, but commercial property owners looking to refinance shouldn’t expect to lock in those rates any longer. At the height of the boom years, many owners of office buildings, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial real estate financed their Read more →
Once dominant, and then dormant, commercial real estate loans are beginning to show signs of life on the trading floor after a two-year slump. Attracted by more conservative underwriting and the perceived bottoming-out of property values, banks like J. P. Morgan Chase and the Royal Bank of
Read more →The once-dismal commercial real estate market is turning around far more quickly than analysts expected, with troubled loans falling, occupancy rising and office building sales surging in the largest markets. That’s welcome news for an economic recovery that still faces headwinds such as rising oil prices. Read
Read more →Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are preparing the year’s first bond sales tied to commercial property loans, according to people familiar with the transactions. Deutsche Bank and UBS are teaming up to issue as much as $2.5 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities
Read more →The commercial real estate sector has had little to cheer about recently, but robust demand for loans is reason for cautious optimism among industry professionals. Liquidity in the commercial real estate loan marketplace is creating at least two opportunities that will benefit the entire industry. Read More
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