Commercial mortgage bond investors, tired of waiting for the European market to recover after the financial crisis, have started lending directly Bloomberg reports. The 2007 European real estate crash triggered a number of defaults that had a severe... Read More
MetLife, Inc. has announced that its commercial real estate division, MetLife Real Estate Investors, originated $11.5 billion in commercial real estate loans in 2013. MetLife continues to be a leader in the commercial mortgage market as well as the largest... Read More
An estimated $1.4 trillion in commercial mortgages are due to mature between 2014 and 2017 and, according to a year-end report from real estate analysts Trepp, lenders and investors could be in for a flood of refinancing that could result in challenges for... Read More
Commercial property investors in the United Kingdom are prepared to take on more debt for new transactions as the market recovery heats up. The average loan-to-value ratio sought by investors increased to 58.3 per cent in Q3 of the year from 43.6 per... Read More
With a delinquency rate of 14.6 per cent, boom-era commercial mortgage holders are missing out on the U.S. real estate recovery, according to Trepp LLC. The data provider has released a report showing that the average delinquency rate for the overall... Read More
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is projecting a double-digit increase in lending in US commercial real estate mortgages over 2012. This works out to $254 billion in loans. Analysts are predicting the momentum to continue throughout the rest of... Read More
A closer look at the impact of new banking regulations Last week we reported that new banking regulations threatened the recovery of the commercial property market. Here we take a closer look at ‘slotting’ and how it affects commercial lenders and... Read More
Strict capital rules imposed on UK banks will increase costs for commercial developers and have a detrimental effect on the wider market, industry insiders have warned. The regulations, called slotting, have been introduced by the Financial Services... Read More
The estimated total value of outstanding debt secured against commercial property was £285 billion as of the middle of 2012. This figure takes into account loans secured by Ireland's NAMA bank according to De Montfort University's UK Commercial Property... Read More
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) are offering better yields to investors than corporate bonds issued by lenders, which means investors seem to be betting on a commercial property recovery. According to JPMorgan Chase & Co., relative spreads... Read More
