Banks
Debt Funds Continue to Gain US Lending Market Share
Jim Costello / September 19th, 2019The U.S. commercial mortgage market is as competitive as ever. Debt funds have continued to gain market share and for the first half of 2019...
US Loan Losses March to the Tune of Property Prices
Jim Costello / April 9th, 2019The worst losses from the U.S. loans originated in the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis are behind us. This said, not every U.S. sector or market is recovering...
Opportunity Zone Lending? Capital Is Already Active
Jim Costello / April 2nd, 2019Patterns of lending within the Qualified Opportunity Zone geographies (QOZs) of the U.S. suggest that many...
US Lending Market Gets More Competitive in 2018
Jim Costello / March 21st, 2019The commercial mortgage market got more competitive in 2018 with six out of the eight lender categories tracked by Real Capital Analytics each capturing...
Which US Lender Groups Are Gaining Ground?
Jim Costello / September 20th, 2018The U.S. commercial real estate debt markets are now as competitive as ever. Despite the upward move of the long-end of the yield curve over the last year and a half, commercial mortgage rates have not...
These Lenders Are Originating More High-LTV Loans
Jim Costello / September 7th, 2018U.S. commercial mortgage professionals are increasingly concerned about the competitive pressure presented by debt funds. This pressure can be seen in...
Changing Gatekeepers of Construction Financing
Jim Costello / May 29th, 2018The Dodd-Frank reform passed last week includes provisions which will clarify certain U.S. rules on bank lending for real estate construction. Those rules were implemented in 2015 and the competitive...
Non-Traditional Lenders Gain Ground
Jim Costello / March 15th, 2018Non-traditional lenders are gaining ground in the market for commercial property lending. Our US Capital Trends report to be released next week will show that financial companies and private lenders...
Is the Increased Lending Share of Smaller Banks a Red Flag?
Jim Costello / April 4th, 2017Commercial real estate is a local business. The immobility of the assets ensures that the expertise needed for the leasing, management and financing of said assets will be concentrated around...
How Will the Fed Increase Impact Commercial Real Estate?
Jim Costello / March 16th, 2017The impact of the Federal Reserve’s 0.25% interest rate increase on investors is unclear. However, for lenders this environment of increasing short-term rates presents challenges to their profitability....
