MBA CREF Associate Director Kelly Hamill interviewed Emily Rasmussen, Managing Director of Business Strategy with Harbor Group Consulting, and George O’Neil III, Managing Director with CW Financial Services LLC, about the insurance market during the coronavirus pandemic.
Tag: Commercial Real Estate

Distressed Debt Monitor: A Conversation with Mayer Brown Partner Jeffrey O’Neale
MBA NewsLink interviewed Jeffrey O’Neale, a partner in Mayer Brown’s Charlotte office and a member of the Real Estate Markets practice. A primary focus of his practice is representing special servicers in loan workouts, restructurings and modifications and repurchase facility buyers in the servicing and administration of their commercial mortgage loan portfolios.

MBA Chart of the Week: Delinquency Rate for Commercial/Multifamily Mortgages
The delinquency rate for commercial and multifamily mortgages declined in July. The rate had increased sharply in April at the onset of the pandemic, with 3.6% of loan balances becoming newly delinquent. In May, delinquencies increased again, with a new, but smaller, cohort of newly delinquent loans.

Distressed Debt Monitor: A Conversation with Mayer Brown Partner Jeffrey O’Neale
MBA NewsLink interviewed Jeffrey O’Neale, a partner in Mayer Brown’s Charlotte office and a member of the Real Estate Markets practice. A primary focus of his practice is representing special servicers in loan workouts, restructurings and modifications and repurchase facility buyers in the servicing and administration of their commercial mortgage loan portfolios.

Distressed Debt Monitor: A Conversation with Mayer Brown Partner Jeffrey O’Neale
MBA NewsLink interviewed Jeffrey O’Neale, a partner in Mayer Brown’s Charlotte office and a member of the Real Estate Markets practice. A primary focus of his practice is representing special servicers in loan workouts, restructurings and modifications and repurchase facility buyers in the servicing and administration of their commercial mortgage loan portfolios.

North American CRE Market Reacts to COVID Downturn
After a strong start to 2020, COVID-19’s impacts on North American commercial real estate hit during the second quarter, reported Transwestern, Houston, and Devencore, Toronto.

Keeping Current with TD Bank Commercial’s Gregg Gerken
MBA NewsLink interviewed Gregg Gerken, Head of Commercial Real Estate for TD Bank. He is responsible for a $20 billion investment real estate portfolio and a $2 Billion LIHTC Equity portfolio serving regional institutional real estate clients.

MBA, Affiliate Groups Submit Main Street Lending Program Recommendations
The Mortgage Bankers Association and affiliated groups shared recommendations with the Senate Banking Committee to improve the Main Street Lending Program’s effectiveness for commercial real estate owners and tenants.

Keeping Current With Midland Loan Services’ Tim Steward
MBA NewsLink interviewed Timothy E. Steward, Senior Vice President and co-head of Midland Loan Services, a PNC Real Estate business. Steward leads a team of more than 500 professionals responsible for delivering loan servicing, asset management and technology services to the commercial real estate finance industry.

COVID-19 Pandemic to Cause Commercial/Multifamily Lending Pullback in 2020
Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers are expected to close $248 billion in loans backed by income-producing properties this year, a 59 percent decline from 2019’s record volume of $601 billion, a new Mortgage Bankers Association forecast said.