New Lending by Mortgage REITs Has Dried Up

Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2023–Peter Grant (subscription)
Some of the biggest names in commercial real-estate lending have all but turned off the spigot. Blackstone Mortgage Trust and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust, two of the biggest mortgage real-estate investment trusts, have halted loans to any new borrowers.
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