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Future Lending Hinges On Loan Trades 

There is a new paradigm floating around the commercial real estate investment community today it is that mortgage debt is worth more than the real estate...

Will the Loan Trade Market Finally Open Up? 

For some time now, there has been a virtual standoff in the real estate loan investment and trading marketplace. Investors with access to capital have...

Savvy Fund Managers Seize Opportunity 

Real estate investment funds have been on a capital-raising binge for the past two quarters, drumming up in excess of $20 billion in the first quarter...

How Downgrades Force Institutional Selling 

In late February, investment analysts at Merrill Lynch downgraded the stocks of mortgage investment giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A few days later,...

Regulators Voice Real Estate Angst 

The high concentration of commercial real estate loans made by community banks is gaining the attention of the chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller...

Borrowers' Fate Rests On Refi Options 

During the booming real estate market of the previous five years, creative financing dominated the landscape. Investors were demanding high leverage in...

Distressed Deals Hard To Find 

So far, all signals from commercial real estate investment analysts point to very low delinquency and default rates, particularly in the CMBS and CDO...

Back to the Basics for Wall Street 

The offices of Wall Street's rocket scientists are silent these days, particularly as the work of these number-crunching gurus relates to the real estate...

Standoff in Secondary Markets 

There has been a deafening silence in the secondary trading pits for commercial real estate-backed loans over the past two months. This comes as investment...

Small Hedge Funds Fare Better in Turmoil 

Hedge funds and private-equity firms dominate commercial real estate and play a significant role with residential space as well. However, when these funds...

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