New data shows that UK property values have fallen, but lenders are keeping their cool during the summer slowdown.
Lenders and developers fueled a record amount of new student housing supply in the US, but the drop in student enrollment should be a cause for concern Student housing has seen a record amount of new supply enter the market each fall for several years now, much of which is considered class A product, according […]
Until now developers have sought to capitalize on the greater returns offered by the residential market, but the landlords’ market is turning as prices and rents level off.
Amid the continuing uncertainty following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, LaSalle has put its best foot forward. Will others follow? News this week that LaSalle Investment Management (LaSalle) had put together a £110 million debt package to support a housing scheme in London’s Finsbury Park may have raised a few eyebrows. After all, in […]
Regulators are proposing more lenient capital treatment for ‘safe, transparent and comparable’ types of securitisation. CMBS does not appear to have made the cut. Last week, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published updated proposals intended to define ‘safe, transparent and comparable’ (STC) forms of securitisation. CMBS was not explicitly excluded, but it seems apparent […]
The MBA’s $500bn forecast for US loan originations this year is plausible, but the odds are stacked against its predictions for record years in 2017 and 2018 The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has forecast $500 billion in US commercial real estate loan originations for 2016, just shy of last year’s $504 billion and not far […]
With investors flocking to the safety of US Treasury bonds and benchmark interest rate hikes on hold, a ‘flight to quality’ into US CRE seems inevitable US lenders and analysts are eyeing a post-Brexit ‘flight to quality’ as investors seek the stability of US assets, currency and government (though the presidential election raises some serious […]
The banks haven’t exactly ‘pulled back’ from commercial real estate lending, but they have shifted focus. And that’s not a bad thing… “The banks are pulling back due to regulations” seems to have become part of the accepted CRE finance lexicon. The only problem is that, on the whole, based on facts and comments from […]
CRE multifamily lenders are shifting focus amid new Federal Housing Finance Agency regulations and increased demand for affordable housing Commercial real estate lenders are looking to ramp up the financing of lower-to-moderate income multifamily housing in 2016 as agency lenders see their lending caps increased and the high-end condo and rental markets, particularly in gateway cities […]
There is talk of ‘recovery’ in the latest De Montfort report, but 2016 could set things back We’re so used to hearing words such as “constraint”, “retrenchment” and “retreat” in relation to the banks, that when a word like “recovery” is used, it prompts a double take. But that was the word quite justifiably […]