Tag: Commercial Mortgages



Hedge Funds spot Lending Opportunities in European Commercial Property Market

Posted on 10 May, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Business News

Commercial mortgage bond investors, tired of waiting for the European market to recover after the financial crisis, have started lending directly Bloomberg reports. The 2007 European real estate crash triggered a number of defaults that had a severe... Read More

MetLife Commercial Real Estate provides over $11 Billion in Loans in 2013

Posted on 15 March, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Business News, Worldwide Property News

MetLife, Inc. has announced that its commercial real estate division, MetLife Real Estate Investors, originated $11.5 billion in commercial real estate loans in 2013. MetLife continues to be a leader in the commercial mortgage market as well as the largest... Read More

US Commercial Loan Refinancing could prove challenging for the Market warns Report

Posted on 1 February, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Worldwide Property News

An estimated $1.4 trillion in commercial mortgages are due to mature between 2014 and 2017 and, according to a year-end report from real estate analysts Trepp, lenders and investors could be in for a flood of refinancing that could result in challenges for... Read More

Commercial Property Buyers willing to take on More Debt as Market Recovers

Posted on 15 December, 2013 by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Sales and Lets, Industry News

Commercial property investors in the United Kingdom are prepared to take on more debt for new transactions as the market recovery heats up. The average loan-to-value ratio sought by investors increased to 58.3 per cent in Q3 of the year from 43.6 per... Read More

Boom Era US Commercial Mortgage Holders Missing Out on Recovery

Posted on 30 March, 2013 by Jodee Redmond under Worldwide Property News

With a delinquency rate of 14.6 per cent, boom-era commercial mortgage holders are missing out on the U.S. real estate recovery, according to Trepp LLC. The data provider has released a report showing that the average delinquency rate for the overall... Read More

US Commercial Property Lending Forecast Positive

Posted on 22 February, 2013 by Jodee Redmond under Worldwide Property News

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is projecting a double-digit increase in lending in US commercial real estate mortgages over 2012. This works out to $254 billion in loans. Analysts are predicting the momentum to continue throughout the rest of... Read More

Slotting and the Commercial Market

Posted on 25 January, 2013 by Jodee Redmond under Industry News

A closer look at the impact of new banking regulations Last week we reported that new banking regulations threatened the recovery of the commercial property market. Here we take a closer look at ‘slotting’ and how it affects commercial lenders and... Read More

Bank Rules Threaten Commercial Property Market

Posted on 18 January, 2013 by Neil Bird under Industry News

Strict capital rules imposed on UK banks will increase costs for commercial developers and  have a detrimental effect on the wider market, industry insiders have warned. The regulations, called slotting, have been introduced by the Financial Services... Read More

Banks Rebalancing UK Commercial Loan Books

Posted on 15 January, 2013 by Jodee Redmond under Industry News

The estimated total value of outstanding debt secured against commercial property was £285 billion as of the middle of 2012. This figure takes into account loans secured by Ireland's NAMA bank according to De Montfort University's UK Commercial Property... Read More

CMBS Offer Favourable Returns to Investors Betting on Property Recovery

Posted on 15 December, 2012 by Jodee Redmond under Industry News

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) are offering better yields to investors than corporate bonds issued by lenders, which means investors seem to be betting on a commercial property recovery. According to JPMorgan Chase & Co., relative spreads... Read More