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Chart: Shifting LTVs of US Lender Groups
Jim Costello / September 30th, 2019Competition in the U.S. commercial mortgage market is fierce. With the debt funds taking on more risk...
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 Commercial Real Estate Endures Bumpy Ride in Q1
Jim Costello / April 17th, 2019U.S. commercial property deal volume fell at double-digit annual rates in the first quarter of 2019, preliminary data shows, as a bumpy rate environment led to a growing sense of investor caution. The...
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...
Will Resets to Variable Rate Loans Cause Trouble?
Jim Costello / June 6th, 2018U.S. commercial real estate finance in the recent era of low Libor became a business driven by variable rate loans. Libor, though, has been on a steady pace of increase since early 2016, with a spike...
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...
Will the Fed Spook Commercial Property Prices?
Jim Costello / October 18th, 2017Everybody and their brother expects that the Federal Reserve will raise rates in December. That’s the known. The unknown is the effect that a rate hike and the unwind of quantitative easing (QE) will...
