Commercial Real Estate Finance

The Week of November 21-27

- Could a new kind of stress test be looming for CRE?

- With the future for CRE unknown, one expert advises banks to raise equity now.

- Regulators are pushing small banks to cut back CRE lending.

- Morgan Stanley admitted defeat, handing back Crescent Real Estate Equities to lender Barclay’s.

- A Hong Kong IPO brought in $2.5B for the Sands China…the low end of the range.

- Macarthurcook REIT has approved a rescue by AMP.

- Are investing in REITs a medium risk way to boost yields?

- Is TALF assistance unneeded for the upcoming CMBS issues?

- Will the hotel sector see a rebound in 2010?

- Could the CMBS market be getting a huge assist from the government?

- The U.S. ranks second in distressed commercial property.

- Could the market rebound make GGP investors fistfulls of cash?

- The Feds want to know when they will be repayed TARP money.

- Want construction financing? Being a good credit medical tenant willing to sign a long lease helps.

- Moody’s says that CRE property values have fallen to their 2002 levels.