Finance & Lending

CMBS issuance in 2018 might be below last year’s level.

Investing in CRE debt at this point in the cycle can bring in attractive current returns.

Bridge loans may be the right financing strategy for value-add investors with a clear plan to increase property income.

A U.S. District Judge said the government’s seizure of all mortgage companies’ profits in January 2013 to recapture taxpayer-funded bailout money might have constituted a breach of faith.

There are slight signs of caution, but CRE lenders and borrowers expect capital markets to remain stable for the sector in 2019.

There’s a lot to like about the West Coast, which has both natural advantages in terms of its ports and its geography, and man-made strengths in the form of a top-tier education system and the presence of multiple, rapidly growing technology firms.

“Spread compression is our biggest challenge this year,” says Christine Haskins, managing director with PGIM Real Estate Finance.

The Department of Justice is now looking into whether banks "colluded" with developers to accept lower prices for LIHTCs for some properties than might have been available from other investors.

Lenders keep fighting to make loans partly because on a national basis, apartment rents continue to rise.

Online lending in the commercial real estate industry is still in its very early stages.