Commercial Finance and Lending
Prudential US Quarterly Update on Commercial Real Estate
July 29, 2010
Prudential is out with its quarterly update on US CRE. Values have increased (in some cases dramatically), capital markets are opening up, and volume is gaining. All is great, except the fundamentals are still broken; job growth is anemic. Report embedded below. US Q July 2010_ PRU
Read More >>Moody’s/REAL CPPI Index Down .5% in March
May 19, 2010
The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index dropped .5% in March. This marks the second month in a row that prices have dropped after a few months of increases. The index is now 42.1% off the peak. Despite the overall decline in the index, some positives were Apartments and Industrial in the top-10 MSAs. In the [...]
Read More >>Moody’s CPPI Index Down 2.6%
April 20, 2010
In our previous post we indicated that risk was back, alluding to our belief that many investors are likely getting ahead of themselves in believing that we’ve seen the worst of it. In a market where the government is willing to artificially provide support to markets at nearly any cost (debt), it ultimately leads to [...]
Read More >>Welcome Back Risk
April 19, 2010
For the past few months, it seems the bears have taken a back seat to a lot of bullishness, particularly in commercial real estate. A few months of rising prices, equity flowing everywhere, and a whole lot more buyers than sellers has made many investors feel that perhaps we’ve seen the worst of it. Perhaps [...]
Read More >>GS Whitehall Funds Down to Last $30M … From $1.8B!
April 16, 2010
And you thought that Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds were the only players in town who had an expertise in losing massive amounts of money. The Financial Times is reporting that Whitehall Street International, GS’s international REF has essentially been wiped out. The fund is down to its last $30m, from about $1.8bn, a loss [...]
Read More >>MSREF VI Shows Us How To Lose $5.4B
April 13, 2010
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VI has disclosed to investors that they are facing losses of nearly two-thirds of their investment. That translates to roughly $5.4B of losses on the massive $8.8B fund. The article in the WSJ runs through most of the juicy tidbits. The losses are so staggering that the entire premise of [...]
Read More >>Westbrook Partners Gets a Deal on Four Seasons
March 22, 2010
Westbrook Partners has moved in to the aid of Millennium Partners, including the San Francisco Four Seasons which was in foreclosure. The deal is seemingly a good one for Westbrook but what this deal signals is that the market was shifting. Banks, which for some time were unfit and/or unsure of what to do with [...]
Read More >>Deloitte’s Theory on CRE: Could Be, May Be, and Expected To
March 22, 2010
Deloitte is out with a report titled “Perspectives on Real Estate: Uncovering Opportunity in a Distressed Market”. It’s a good read. It pretty much tells you everything we already knew was broken, that we are facing problems with: Declining Real Estate Values Debt Maturity and Credit Access Stalled Construction The rest of the report is [...]
Read More >>AB2640 Seeks to Repeal 1031 Exchanges in California
March 15, 2010
First of all, for those of you who dropped me a note wondering if I was still alive, rest assured I am. Thanks for the concern. Now to the pressing issue, a bill within the California state assembly which seeks to repeal the tax benefits of 1031 exchanges in California. We’ve been discussing for a [...]
Read More >>$46B in CMBS Balances Now Delinquent
March 3, 2010
RealPoint’s February report is out and things continue to get worse on the CMBS front. Not only is the oustanding CMBS loan amount huge, but the rate of growth is staggering. The amount of distressed 90+ day loans rose 28% in one month. In January 2010, the delinquent unpaid balance for CMBS increased by another [...]
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