Commercial Finance and Lending
CRE Dominoes: Capmark Hitting The Fan
October 24, 2009
Tweet Well the reports are that Capmark is finally ready to file BK. This was something that has been on the radar for quite some time, but seems things are nearing the end with reports that a filing could come as soon as this weekend. Capmark is/was a large commercial lender, though what this deal [...]
Read More >>Failed Bank Timeline
October 23, 2009
Tweet The WSJ has a breakdown of the bank failures thus far and accompanying graphic to go along with it. Unfortunately it’s not embeddable, but you can see it by going here.
Read More >>MacFarlane Quits CalPERS; Stockbridge In
October 23, 2009
Tweet Through the first quarter of 2009, CalPERS placed net-asset fair-market value of $854.4 million on the portfolio of California Urban Investment Partners LLC. The portfolio’s quarterly returns were negative 24.2 percent; its one-year return was negative 40.3 percent. … MacFarlane now has no relationship with CalPERS. As recently as December 2007, MacFarlane was a [...]
Read More >>Tishman Loses Stuyvesant Town Ruling
October 22, 2009
Tweet A court of appeals today ruled that Tishman unlawfully raised rents at Stuyvesant Town and could be forced to pay back millions. The massive Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village project is a huge project that we previously posted about. This project was originally acquired for some $5.4B. Estimates at the time of our post were [...]
Read More >>RREEF, RREEF, and RREEF
October 19, 2009
Tweet The Registry has three recent articles out, all of them hitting on RREEF. The first article discusses the SF Employee Pension, and the hit they’ve taken on their real estate investments – to the tune of about $650M. The most significant unrealized net-asset value losses occurred in three portfolios managed by three well-known pension [...]
Read More >>Moody’s Commercial Property Price Index Continues Fall – Down 40% From Peak
October 19, 2009
Tweet The August numbers for Moody’s CPPI are out, and they are still deteriorating. The latest numbers indicate a further 3% drop in August marking a 41% drop from the peak. Commercial real estate prices are forecast to fall additional 17 percent through the fourth quarter of next year, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in [...]
Read More >>CRE Dominoes: Stuyvesant Town About To Go
October 14, 2009
Tweet Tishman and Blackstone teamed up to acquire Stuyvesant Town in New York back in 2006 for a whopping $5.4B. The project encompasses some 11,000 apartments across 54-buildings. The acquisition strategy included efforts to convert rent-controlled units to market-rate units, but a lawsuit has put the ice on that (sounds like Page Mill Properties and [...]
Read More >>Morgan Stanley to Take Hit on Crescent
October 14, 2009
Tweet Morgan Stanley was one of the most aggressive investors during this last boom cycle. Their activities included the acquisition of the EOP San Francisco portfolio for some $2.5B, and the August 2007 purchase of Crescent Real Estate Equities for $6.5B (if you include the debt), and other smaller deals such as providing the debt [...]
Read More >>The Seven New Mortgage Laws
October 13, 2009
Tweet Schwarzenegger has signed seven new laws into place designed to make the mortgage market less casino-like. The most interesting one, perhaps is SB 239, which now makes it a felony to commit fraud on a mortgage loan application. We’ve embedded the bill below and it seems this law is not confined to residential since [...]
Read More >>Friday Tidbits: Goldman, AIG, Private Equity
October 9, 2009
Tweet AIG Headquarters Going Residential The buyer of AIG’s headquarters building, Young Woo, has plans to flip out the top portion of the building as condos. The building was bought for around $100 psf in June. Various estimates peg the price the condos could fetch at $1,000 – 2,000 psf. [via WSJ] Goldman Working on [...]
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