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 […]

Roughly half of the $346 billion of commercial mortgages that mature this year have principal balances greater than the value of their collateral, according to Trepp LLC. Trepp, a New York research firm.
And 63 percent of the $360 billion of loans held by banks, insurance companies and CMBS trusts that come due […]

Just published by Michael K. Houge, CCIM, SIOR in CityBiz Real Estate Blog is a very interesting article entitled: Five Indicators of the Bottom of the Commercial Real Estate Market.
So here it is …. As a commercial real estate broker and investor, I am often asked about the arrival of the low-point of the stressed, […]

At MarylandCommercialTitle.com we pride ourselves on finding the data that lies well below the radar. Bingo. Here is a data point that you will not see in the mainstream media. And more importantly, this is powerful information that you can (and should) use to guide your business and investment decisions moving forward.
Just posted in ZeroHedge.com we see […]

As published in Zero Hedge, where their tag line signals the sentiment ……  “on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero,” it is reported that the result of the stress test in the just published S&P “Scenario Analysis: Standard & Poor’s Expects the Downgrade Risk To Be High For Recent-Vintage U.SCMBS […]

For the last couple of months now, there has been talk in the commercial real estate industry that life insurance companies were or would be stepping in to fill the financing void left by the cessation of CMBS market activity.
In fact, just two weeks ago, on 4 April 2008, we posted a Blog about […]