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Commercial Real Estate Loans in Core Europe Face $55 Billion Funding Gap, Report Says

April 25, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

LONDON (Reuters) – Around one in five loans backing commercial real estate (CRE) in Britain, France and Germany that fall due between now and 2025 are likely to face refinancing challenges given higher interest rates, […]

US banks are fretting over falling commercial real-estate valuations as higher interest rates and a credit squeeze bite, top executives say

April 25, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

US banks are getting increasingly stressed about tumbling commercial real-estate valuations and what that means for their balance sheets, top executives have said, per the Financial Times. Arkansas-based Bank OZK, with a sizable exposure to the […]

US Banks Worry Commercial Real Estate Valuations May Pose Broader Economic Consequences

April 25, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

US banks are growing increasingly concerned about the drop in commercial property valuations and the possible risk to lenders’ balance sheets, some senior executives worry. Office valuations, in particular, have been hit by rising interest […]

Dead man walking: Big city commercial real estate

April 21, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

The pandemic work-from-home era may have started the demise of the city office space, but the Biden administration’s spending spree is surely going to finish it off with its resultant inflation and shaky response to […]

Blackstone is the latest victim of the weakening commercial real estate market

April 21, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

New YorkCNN — The ongoing commercial real estate slowdown has a new victim: Blackstone, the largest owner of commercial real estate globally. The company saw its distributable earnings — the profit distributed to shareholders after expenses […]

Marijuana Industry Buying Less Commercial Property in the U.S.

April 18, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

Showing A Greater Preference To Lease Commercial Property Instead In 2023 According to a new study from the National Association of Realtors, there has been a decline in commercial property purchases by marijuana industry-related businesses […]

Fears mount that Europe’s commercial real estate sector could be the next to fall

April 14, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

Concerns are mounting around the health of Europe’s commercial real estate market, with some investors questioning whether it could be the next sector to implode following last month’s banking crisis. Higher interest rates have increased […]

Commercial real estate is bruised but not broken

April 13, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

There is a clickbait argument that because the Federal Reserve has raised US interest rates so far and so fast, small banks — which provide almost 70 per cent of Commercial real estate lending — […]

Commercial real estate at risk of ‘broader correction’ as debt costs rise and lenders retreat, warns IMF

April 12, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

Commercial real estate that appears “significantly overvalued” could tumble in price, as debt costs rise and lenders come under pressure, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. Commercial real estate has begun to face significant […]

Is commercial real estate the next shoe to drop?

April 7, 2023 Mark Paul Cervantes Comments Off

Although it is often hard to predict the proverbial next shoe to drop, investors are currently zooming in on growing risks in the commercial real estate (CRE) market and its potential spillover to the banking […]

Rocket lost money last year, so why are its shares up?

February 25, 2024 Comments Off

Rocket Companies, the parent of Rocket Mortgage, lost money in 2023, but executives have expressed confidence about a big turnaround by touting investment in artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the company’s profitability. Despite reporting […]

Industry experts are closely watching delinquency rates, insurance costs

February 25, 2024 Comments Off

Mortgage servicers, regulators and economists are closely watching the delinquency rates for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans following a spike in the fourth quarter of 2023. Industry experts say that although there’s a correlation […]

Jobs data sends mortgage rates higher

February 3, 2024 Comments Off

Today we got a jobs Friday hat trick! Better headline jobs were reported, with positive revisions and more robust wage growth, which caught bond traders off guard and sent bond yields and mortgage rates […]