Commercial Lending Bounces Back In 2010- CoStar.com 2010 Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loans up 36 percent over 2009 $110 Billion of CRE loan originated in 2010 by Mortgage Bankers (both purchase and refi) Life companies now the largest source of lending with 2010 activity up… Read more

The fourth quarter of 2010 saw a significant increase in commercial real estate sales to $112.5 billion up impressively from $54 billion and change in 2009 (but still a small fraction of the almost $558 billion in 2007. While I had been forecasting a $120… Read more

Commercial loan modifications, which essentially were unheard of prior to 2009, occurred on 354 commercial properties in the first 11 months of 2010..   While commercial loan modifications tallied 354 loans in 2010 representing $15.6 billion of loans, that is less than ½ of 1… Read more

Liquidity is finally returning to the commercial segment albeit from capital raised by REITS not wanting to miss this buying opportunity.   REVPAR (Revenue Per Available Room) up 7.1 percent in first 11 months of 2010 to $76.61   Hotel Acquisitions in Americas to Increase… Read more

Deloitte deems there are five factors impacting commercial real estate in 2011. Increasing sales (a good sign) Market still has no horizon Some banks may  never recover declines in property values before the loan comes due There remains a mass of loans coming due The… Read more

• Some commercial property values down almost 50 percent from the peak • Apartment cap rates heading astonishingly low • Industrial properties getting drawn-out recovery • Lending and loan availability for hotels is extremely challenging • Retail recovery is direct function of resource quality “Emerging… Read more

But The Latest NCREIF Data Show an Improvement in Commercial Real Estate Values in Q2 With an estimated $1.4 trillion of commercial real estate debt set to refinance by the end of 2014, more than half of that is underwater according to a Wall Street… Read more

The New Business Model: Lean, Liquid, Less = Nimble a.k.a. Less is More According to the National Association of Realtors Businesses Save by Cutting Space Per Worker As we struggle through this recession (and yes, I believe we have to exit the recession since we have… Read more

One in five recent retail property sales were distressed—but supply is being snapped up quickly by value seekers and is spilling over into non-distressed properties with buyers seeking institutional grade quality. Lending has returned to high-quality assets (indicating lenders are comfortable that prices have bottomed)… Read more

Q2 2010 Commercial Mortgage Originations Up 35 Percent from Q1 But Flat From Last Year Any increase in liquidity after the frozen first quarter is good news.  Granted, very few property owners want to sell voluntarily in this pummeled market.  But at least we are… Read more