On February 10, 2010 the Congressional Oversight Panel issued a most amazing and eye-opening report entitled: Commercial Real Estate Losses and the Risk to Financial Stability.
Here a quick executive summary — directly from the source – that should be read very carefully. Keep in mind, this is what the government’s oversight panel is concluding; not […]

While I am on the topic of bank lending, I would like to add a few words about commercial real estate (CRE).
Demand for commercial property has dropped as the economy has weakened, leading to significant declines in property values, increased vacancy rates, and falling rents.
These poor fundamentals have caused a sharp deterioration in the credit […]

Today was Fed Meeting Day. In a piece entitled Commercial Real Estate Continues to Worry the Fed …. we see that apparently there is more evidence that commercial real estate continues to worry the Fed: The minutes from the September meeting of Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee.
The underlying theme of the Fed’s view of the real-estate market comes […]

This just in from the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the full story outlining the upcomming horrors that the commercial real estate market may very well play on our economy.
 Federal Reserve and Treasury officials are scrambling to prevent the commercial-real-estate sector from delivering a roundhouse punch to the U.S. economy just as it struggles to get […]

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, […]

Moody’s REAL CPPI July 2009 Report

Moody’s has released its April 2009 Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices (CPPI) update and it is a doozy: -8.6%, after what many had expected was a shooting green reading of just -1.7% in March.
The problem that many don’t grasp that once capitulation in CRE sets in, the bottom will be torn out.
New York, June 22, 2009 […]

Commercial real estate powerhouse RealPoint has downgraded several hundred deals and CMBS classes  …. Beware!Realpoint CMBS

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RealPoint also provides a comprehensive April CMBS delinquency report. A must read. Most notable is the explosion in 90+ day delinquencies for March 2009 relative to April 2009.
In fact the deterioration is accelerating […]

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 […]

In todays WSJ there is a rather telling article entiled, Real-Estate Industry Pushes Fed to Lengthen TALF Terms, which may be of interest to our readers.

Acording to the piece, the real-estate industry is lobbying the Federal Reserve to modify a bailout program that many believe may avert a wave of commercial-property defaults.
Real-estate owners and investors […]