CRE Loan Shares Continue To Be a Concern for Bank Regulators

There are few concerns more central to the soundness of the nation’s banks and thrifts than commercial real estate credit, Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, told attendees at last week’s CRE Finance Council conference in Washington, DC. You can see the reason f
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Tenants Continue To Rule the Market

This week’s disappointing job growth numbers make it abundantly clear that it’s still a tenants’ market out there and no amount of aspiring to the contrary will make it easier for landlords fighting to attract and retain them. The job news “is an obstacle and a
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Hotel Values Continue Robust Recovery

The hotel recovery continues for all the major U.S. hotel markets National Real Estate Investor
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Traditional Lenders Continue to Lend on Retail, But Focus on Top Product

Life insurance companies and banks up their originations for retail in the third quarter of 2011. National Real Estate Investor
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U.S. Mortgages Rates Continue To Set New 60-Year Record Lows

Frank Nothaft According to Freddie Mac’s latest weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), fixed-rate mortgages remaining near their 60-year lows as ongoing investor concerns over the European debt market kept Treasury bond yields low. The 30-year fixed averaged 4.09 percent,
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