An interesting review of commercial deals, lending, CMBS, and other related trends. Worth a watch ….

As reported in the January 28, 2011 edition of the Baltimore Business Journal, Maryland’s Cautious Banks Tighten Lending Requirement, the article reflects the current state of lending in Maryland.More specifically, examples are cited of secure, quality developers – with great track-records like Cignal Corp. — who are ready to build, but due to strick lending environments, […]

Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic just published an interesting article, “Is the Commercial Mortgage Market healing?”Frankly, it is not wholly clear that the commercial mortgage market is, or will, become better in the very near future. However, Indiviglio lays down a fairly solid argument that is more than worthy of a quick  look. For quite some time […]

We are now in an era of unearthing organizations that we never before focused on. One such creation is MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems).
This institution has taken center stage recently and is significant in that it actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership […]

As an increasing number of commercial property owners face upcoming debt maturities, more of them have started to use threats of strategic default as a bargaining tool in negotiations with lenders.
Knowing how reluctant lenders are to take back assets, borrowers of every kind, from big publicly traded REITs to private players with only a handful […]

What’s old is new again. Just posted to www.ZeroHedge.com, is a fairly comprehensive and enlightening recap of the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) report which documents their stress testing of 53 large banking holding companies and published its findings last month.
This report and analysis is not only objective, but it’s consistent with many postings on this Blog. All […]

Finally, some good news. Commercial real estate markets across the U.S. continued on their trend of improvement in the second quarter 2010, according to Moody’s. The news is more than welcome, in that some upward pricing movement is always a good sign for the market, if not for the industries psyche. But the long-standing problems are […]

The penultimate question, addressed in SeekingApha’s Keith Jurow’s timely article, Comercial Real Estate: Is There A Bottom In Sight?  Here’s the article in it’s entirety ….. It’s a great primer on the past, and perhaps a view into the future ….
In the last 18 months, the commercial real estate market has seriously deteriorated. Yet […]

Fitch reported today the commercial real estate (CRE) values continue to decline giving rise to greater loan losses on CRE. On the average throughout 2009, lenders recovered ONLY 43 cents on the dollar on distressed loans. And there’s more bad news; they see the loss rate only going up.

The average loss severity rate or the ratio […]

Funds giving investors money back? If ever there was a red flag, and in the end a litmus test regarding the state of Commercial Real Estate (CRE), here it is. According to a just published WSJ article, Dearth of Properties Spurs Fund Giveback some real-estate funds, which raised billions of dollars hoping to pounce on […]