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• Larry Fink of Blackrock on Commercial Real Estate

  
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  Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of Blackrock on commercial real estate…
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• CalPERS Takes Huge Hit to RE Portfolio

  
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  CalPERS has taken a huge hit to its real estate portfolio according to The Registry.At the end of March, the pension fund placed a net-asset fair-market value on its real estate holdings of $17.6 billion. Three months later, the retirement system said the value had fallen by nearly a quarter to $13.4 billion.Amongst ...
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• Banks Quick to Adopt New FDIC Guidelines

  
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  WSJ is reporting that banks are being quick to adopt new FDIC guidelines which allow them to reclassify the type of debt they have on their books from performing to non-performing by meeting less stringent requirements.The new policy statement recently issued by the FDIC recently gives banks the ability to restructure ...
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• Commercial Real Estate Lending Remains Tight

  
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  The Federal Reserve released yesterday its October 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. Generally speaking, standards are still tightening at many banks, and banks are pushing out distress by extending loans.The October survey included a special question on the status of CRE loans on ...
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• Management Fees Down; Hurdle Rates Up

  
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  Raising money for a new fund? Cut your management fee and throw off better returns. That’s the trend following years of mismanagement by many real estate investment firms who continued to invest wildly despite clearly being in a market which was detached from historical norms and reality.Pension funds, endowments, ...
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• 4280 Hacienda in Pleasanton In Default

  
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  A notice of default was filed on the 141,000 SF Britannia II building in Pleasanton. The building is 141,000 SF, and has a $41M first deed of trust on it with Bank of America. The property sits on about 8.3 acres. The notice of default was filed on October 27, 2009. Asking rate is $1.75 [...]
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• Commercial Real Estate Bust Makes BusinessWeek Cover

  
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  The main stream media is really starting to pickup the commercial real estate fallout. This in our opinion is a good thing seeing how they are usually late to the party.We’ve been talking about the trouble for a few years now, but we’ve seen increasing amounts of segments on CRE, mostly on Bloomberg and CNBC. [...]
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• 2010 Will Be A “Bloodbath”, But Keep Reading

  
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  We’ve heard all sorts of things to describe the fall in CRE. The most recent have been “Bloodletting” (Soros), “Huge Crash” and “Tragedies” (Ross). P&I is out with an article pointing to the recent PwC/ULI report that is being widely reported on. They’ve focused in on the most sensational part of ...
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• Commercial Lending Down 54%

  
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  Not much surprise here. No transactions and declining values = no lending.U.S. mortgage lending for commercial property fell 54 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, led by a decline in loans for malls and shopping centers, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.The dollar value of loans dropped 56 percent ...
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• When to Fire Your Commercial Lender

  
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  Since the banking meltdown, most of us are now reluctantly admitting that banks and other commercial lenders are just not the same. In a manner similar to many automobile manufacturers that are now a tarnished and shriveled version of what they once were, it seems like almost overnight most commercial banks and small ...
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• CRE: 90’s Then And Now Part Three

  
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  Business Insider had a two-post discussion on commercial real estate, and the difference between the nineties and now. The original post which references a post by David Lynn of ING Clarion in NREI points out that we don’t have the oversupply problem that plagued the industry in the 90’s. In addition, most real ...
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• Wilbur Ross On CNBC

  
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  The talk on commercial real estate begins around 4:25…
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• MIT TBI Shows 4.4% Quarterly Jump

  
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  The MIT Center for Real Estate Transaction-Based Index (TBI) numbers released for the third quarter has reversed course and shown a 4.4% jump from the previous quarter.The 4.4 percent increase in the transactions-based index (TBI) for the third quarter is the first positive price change in the index in over a year, ...
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• Prudential CRE US Quarterly Update

  
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  Prudential has recently put out its quarterly update on US real estate. On debt markets:At commercial banks…Commercial banks, which represent about half of the $3.5 trillion commercial-mortgage market, remain largely stuck in the “extend-and-pretend” mode. Some banks are originating loans for balance sheets, ...
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• Real Estate Roundtable Q4 Sentiment Index: Better But Not Good

  
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  The Real Estate Roundtable published its fourth quarter Sentiment Index. The press release is still pretty grim:With high unemployment pushing up vacancies, no credit capacity and property values plummeting, commercial real estate markets remain extremely stressed with little prospect for significant near-term ...
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• FDIC Adopts Policy Statement on CRE Loans to Help Banks

  
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  The FDIC has adopted a new policy which essentially gives a pass to banks with CRE portfolios that have diminished in value, but that are performing.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), in coordination with the other member Agencies of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), ...
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• Roubini on the Carry Trade

  
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  Nouriel Roubini has written an article in the FT discussing the threat of basically a coordinated deflating of assets that is set to occur as a result of the low interest rate policy in the US. The low interest rates are creating a carry trade opportunity allowing investors to borrow at next to nothing (or [...]
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• CRE Dominoes: FDIC Takes Over Three California Banks

  
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  The FDIC has shut down three California banks: Pacific National Bank, California National Bank, and San Diego National Bank.The three banks all were invested heavily in commercial real estate. Pacific National, as it was mentioned in The Registry article as being a lender on Moffett Towers (phase 2), was also involved ...
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• FDIC Takes Over Three California Banks

  
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  The FDIC has shut down three California banks: Pacific National Bank, California National Bank, and San Diego National Bank.The three banks all were invested heavily in commercial real estate. Pacific National, as it was mentioned in The Registry article as being a lender on Moffett Towers (phase 2), was also involved ...
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• WSJ Roundup: Blackstone, Germans, and a Tenant’s Market

  
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  Blackstone’s Hilton DealThe LBO market was torrid during 2006-2007. So was commercial real estate. Combine the two, and you have the Blackstone/Hilton deal.In the Hilton negotiations, Blackstone is considering contributing $800 million of new equity to buy back debt at a discount. It also is seeking to extend debt ...
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