Market Update Blog

December 3, 2015

The NNN leased asset financing landscape remains strong with cap rates holding steady despite the recent changes in CMBS pricing. Borrowers have resorted to lower leverage Interest Only debt to maximize cash flow against aggressive cap rates, and credit unions…

November 18, 2015

Shrinking profit margins and slowing originations are dampening the mood of commercial MBS lenders. Over the past few months, issuers have been battered by wider bond spreads, hedging losses and pushback from investors about credit quality. A new regulation requiring…

November 11, 2015

In the latest installment of our video series Barry Slatt’s Kelvin Lam and Dan Friedeberg sit down with Cushman Wakefield Managing Director Tenny Tsai to discuss new legislation affecting Chinese foreign investment, and the major impact this will have on…

QDII2 will allow Chinese investors to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in real estate throughout the world. Chinese investors spent over $28.6 billion on U.S. properties in 2014 and became the biggest group of international investors in the states,…

November 4, 2015

The Mortgage Bankers Association projects originations of commercial and multifamily mortgages to rise by 6 percent in 2016 to $485 billion. Mortgage bankers’ originations of multifamily mortgages are forecast at $187 billion in 2016, while total multifamily mortgage originations project…

October 28, 2015

How you take title to property can have a major impact on your finances and risk assumption. Among other things, it can affect your income taxes, your property taxes, how the property passes to your heirs, and your potential personal…