The stymieing effect the credit crunch has had on the flow of capital has been well chronicled. But until recently, commercial real estate had virtually escaped the fallout. The primary reason for the resilience was...
There is significant jockeying for position in what is turning out to be a radically altered commercial real estate investment and finance landscape. The interests of mortgage investors and those of real estate owners...
Scavenger investors are circling like buzzards over property investors as they embark on negotiations with creditors on maturing loans. In a deleveraging world, the potential for maturity defaults represents the...
There's a swelling industry chorus predicting sizeable declines in commercial real estate values over the next 18 months. A number of indices suggest prices have already begun to fall. So what's an investor to think...
For nine months, commercial mortgage brokers, bankers, and their multifamily investor clients had been feeling what the rest of the world undoubtedly felt when the U.S. Treasury abruptly seized control of Fannie Mae...
When the Federal Reserve Board met on Aug. 5 to set monetary policy, with the exception of a lone dissenting member, all voted to keep the Fed funds rate at 2%. The move had been widely anticipated by investors the...
It is no secret that armies of fund managers are on the hunt for distressed real estate and struggling mortgage investors. Against that backdrop, the performance of institutional real estate investors is being closely...