Fitch Ratings, New York/London, said post-pandemic, many U.S. commercial real estate segments will be transformed by the way space is used, which will have long-term consequences for property performance and financeability.
Tag: Commercial Real Estate

Atlanta Fed’s Brian Bailey, CRE, Dishes on Commercial Real Estate Risks
With just under two decades wearing different hats in the commercial real estate industry before joining the bank, Bailey is a CRE subject matter expert in the Atlanta Fed’s Supervision, Regulation and Credit division. In addition to previous roles as an appraiser, consultant and property developer, Bailey holds CCIM and CRE designations. MBS Newslink interviewed Bailey to get his perspective on the current environment.

Institutional Investors Expect Negative Full-Year Returns
Institutional investors expect negative full-year commercial real estate returns, the Pension Real Estate Association’s Consensus Forecast Survey reported.

The CMBS Market During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Moody’s Investors Service
MBA NewsLink interviewed Keith Banhazl, Victor Calanog and Nick Levidy from Moody’s, New York.

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 solutions to the commercial real estate finance industry.

MBA Chart of the Week: Delinquency Status of Unpaid Principal Balance 2nd Quarter
The $3.7 trillion commercial and multifamily mortgage market is really a confederation of different capital sources, property types and geographic markets, all bound together by the provision of mortgage capital backed by investment property incomes and collateral value. Often, the overall market moves in tandem. At other times – like now – different segments act very differently.

Andrew Foster: Case-By-Case–Commercial Mortgage Forbearance Consideration Begins
While the hope remains that the recession will be short-lived with a strong recovery in the second half of 2020, commercial real estate typically lags the broader economy. Any quick relief for the commercial mortgage industry will be due in part to government relief efforts. It will take patience from market participants before a clear picture of various outcomes emerges, in part because so much of the CRE finance market impacted by COVID-19 is entering into forbearance agreements.

New MBA White Paper Analyzes Commercial Real Estate Market Trends, Outlook
The Mortgage Bankers Association last week released a new white paper, Where From Here?, which examines current economic trends and commercial/multifamily real estate market conditions and summarizes recent comprehensive data–by property type and capital source–reported by MBA’s research team.

Commercial Servicing Software Must be Flexible
Commercial servicing software needs to be flexible and scalable. It must accommodate a variety of loan products; include commercial-specific reporting, payment and escrow administration functionality; and provide support for asset managers.