What does this say about the REIT market?
Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC) sold its holdings in the Rutherford Business Center in Maryland and the White Marsh Center for a combined $48.8 million, part of a broader asset reallocation plan unveiled earlier this year.
Since April, the real-estate investment trust that focuses on tenants in the U.S. […]

As most of our readers know how vigorously we have been following the story of the decline of commercial real estate values, loans blowing up and unwinding, and the “new” role of Special Servicers (MylesTile even had an Advisory Council Breakfast Seminar, on November 10, 2011, on […]

The failing economy strikes again. As a result of continuing recessionary conditions, residential property assessments throughout Maryland have gravitated to below-market levels throughout the last three years. The same — unfortunately —  cannot be said for commercial properties, which generally have not been similarly lowered to reflect the […]

November 11, 2011 (Download your copy of the MylesTitle Advisory Council Breakfast Seminar Materials)

THE FATE OF $90+ BILLION IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE LOANS:
 

WHO are “Special Servicers”? 
WHAT do they do? 
WHERE do they operate? 
WHEN are the deals happening? 
WHY, most importantly, does it matter to you? 

INVESTORS & DEVELOPERS: Learn about immediate opportunities that exist for Developers & Investors, and […]

Could this be progress in our midst. Is this a green shoot?
U.S. commercial-property loan originations rose to the highest since 2007 in the third quarter 2011 as banks, insurers and government-backed finance companies increased lending, the Mortgage Bankers Association said last week.
 

New loans for commercial and multifamily mortgages climbed 98 percent from a year […]

Commercial real estate values have risen substantially since the trough of 2009, but remained flat in October 2011.
 

Properties such as office buildings, warehouses, apartment complexes and malls have increased in value by more than 45% from the bottom of the market in 2009.
That means that three-quarters of the decline in values that occurred as the […]

As report today in the Financial Times,  shockingly a large percentage of US banks say that lending standards for commercial real estate loans are the tightest they have been since 2005. Unfortunately, this unsettling fact, highlights a continued lack of appetite for real estate investment. The numbers are evidence that, despite some improvement since the recession ended in […]

The commercial real estate market — in the 1st Quarter of 2011 — is showing increased signs of stability, led by burgeoning demand for apartments, according to a report issued Monday by Moody’s. The overall commercial real estate market ranking for the nation increased two points to 67 (out of 100). Scores for the central business district […]

Due to the intense competition for the small number of qualified and viable commercial real estate deals in the marketplace today, underwriting is starting to get very competitive, which in turn is getting a bit loose these day.A recent NY Times article outlines this trend, especially in the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) market. Back at […]

U.S. commercial property prices fell in April 2010 as sales of distressed assets made up a large share of transactions, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped 3.7 percent from March 2011 and 13 percent from a year earlier.
It’s now 49 percent below the peak of October 2007 and at […]