Awareness from both lenders and borrowers seem to have some loans nearing resolution in this turbulent market. Read the article below for more information.
By Maura O’Connor | GlobeSt.com
As Europe limps towards resolution or further chaos, it seems there are signs of economic life in the US. Some of this is playing out in the real estate world, where some resolutions are happening amidst the rubble of loans gone bad.
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With the 2007 vintage loans approaching their 5 year balloon maturity dates, this article discusses some possibilities for the coming months.
By Michael Gerrity | World Property Channel
Based on Trepp’s CMBS Delinquency Report released today, the delinquency rate in November for U.S. commercial real estate loans in CMBS fell 26 basis points to 9.51%. This was the second biggest drop in 2011, surpassed only by August’s 36 point drop.
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Eric Stoessel | National Real Estate Investor
Steve Van hates being the pessimist, but he can’t help it. The CEO of Prism Hotels & Resorts says comparing the last two years of hotel distress to what’s coming is like comparing “a car wreck and a train wreck.”
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With numerous legislative proposals on the table, the outcomes in 2012 will pave the way for commercial real estate.
National Real Estate Investor
The commercial real estate industry is hoping that decision 2012 will help to loosen the logjam of legislative issues piling up in Washington.blockquote>
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Read more about how the multifamily sector is attracting a nontraditional group of lenders.
By Susan Piperato| NREI
Multifamily housing is leading commercial real estate’s recovery with strong rent growth, rising values and high occupancies, which is enticing non-traditional funding sources—especially life insurance companies—to attempt to gain market share.
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Foreclosures are still on the rise and this will effect the commercial real estate markets…
Notices of default, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — warnings that can eventually lead to a home being lost to foreclosure — hit a seven-month high in October.
The numbers are further evidence foreclosure activity is picking up.
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Keynote speaker for the Investment Program Association’s fall meeting, Peter Ricchiuti, discusses the impacts of the economic recovery on commercial real estate and two sectors that could be impacted positively.
By Bruce Kelly | Investment News
The outlook for investing in commercial real estate through real estate investment trusts is positive, said Peter Ricchiuti, an economist and assistant dean at Tulane University.
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It is always good to hear that some markets are going to be profitable. What will you do with the opportunities?
By Eric Pryne
Seattle Times business reporter
“Wealth islands.”
That’s the term a prominent national real-estate forecast has coined for cities like Seattle that it anticipates will fare relatively well in 2012, while most markets continue to struggle.
The annual “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” report, released late Tuesday, ranks the Seattle metro area sixth among the nation’s top 51 markets for commercial and multifamily investment next year.
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Interesting article about whats happening in the commercial real estate market.
Robert Carr | GlobeSt.com
Commercial real estate professionals had an unexpected Happy Hour during the first half of the year, but most agree the second half is like waking up with the hangover, with cold reality setting in.
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There is money to be made in commercial real estate and it goes to those who work hard and smart.
Robert Shemin, a wealth and real estate expert and author of The New York Times best-seller “How Come That Idiot’s Rich and I’m Not?” says real-estate investors should not expect to walk down the street and start making money.
It takes work and effort just like any other business, he says, “but like any business, if you learn as you go, it gets better and easier.”
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