Posts Tagged ‘Multifamily Loans’
Force Majeure in Real Estate Leases During the Coronavirus Pandemic
With the coronavirus pandemic on everyone’s mind, an often overlooked clause is gaining prominence in all contracts, including real estate leases: Force Majeure.
Read MoreReal Estate Portfolio Stress Testing: Core 4 Indicators and Other Considerations
Real estate portfolio stress testing is one method we use to assess an investor’s ability to weather upcoming (or ongoing) economic turmoil. There are four primary factors we like to start with when doing a stress test on a real estate portfolio.
Read MoreMoves by the NY Fed, GSEs could accelerate transition away from LIBOR
It’s official: Regulators are retiring LIBOR by the end of 2021. The transition away from LIBOR to SOFR is trudging along, and government agencies are digging their spurs into the commercial real estate industry.
Read MoreLIBOR Replacements in Real Estate: Introducing SOFR
U.S. banks lay the groundwork for the successor to LIBOR, replacements emerge for the real estate industry. Since the mid-1980s, the London Interbank Offered Rate, better known as LIBOR, has been the reference on which most floating-rate loans—an estimated $300 trillion in financial contracts globally—are based. However, the financial world was eventually forced to confront…
Read MoreGoldman Sachs Economic Outlook 2019 – Real Estate Research Roundup
The U.S. economy could very well be headed into the “home stretch” of the recovery cycle after nearly a decade of growth. Overall, the outlook for the U.S. economy in the coming year is for slower, yet still positive economic growth. Yet even though Goldman Sachs is anticipating “meaningful deceleration” in some key indicators in…
Read MoreThe death knell is tolling for LIBOR
Are you prepared for the disappearance of LIBOR? The clock is winding down on the last days of LIBOR, forcing commercial real estate professionals to take a closer look at mortgages and loan docs that will be impacted when the key benchmark is phased out by the end of 2021. The demise of LIBOR (the…
Read MoreLife Company Lender Survey Shows Positive Findings
Despite signs of a maturing market cycle, life insurance companies appear to be staying the course on commercial real estate lending activity.
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