Commercial real estate lending

First Foundation in Dallas recently got a $228 million capital injection led by Fortress Investment Group. Now it's announced plans to pivot away from its heavy focus on multifamily loans, which lost value as interest rates rose.

Institutional investors have an opportunity to "do well while doing good" while advancing a flagship public/private partnership model writes the Chief Growth Officer of Rocktop.

Bank OZK is the latest commercial real estate-heavy bank to announce plans to diversify its business. CEO George Gleason emphasized that he's confident in the bank's loan portfolio, but said he thinks misperceptions are dragging down the stock price.

Some banks with large commercial real estate concentrations are seeing their stock values take a roller-coaster ride as investors discount their assurances about the wobbly asset class.

Pacific Investment Management Co. expects more regional bank failures in the U.S. because of a "very high" concentration of troubled commercial real estate loans on their books. 

Dean Wheeler will drive the firm's growth push in the U.S. and follows the London firm promoting Serenity Morley to COO, to drive growth globally.

Voters approved Proposition C, which offers a tax break for developers to convert up to 5 million square feet of commercial space by 2030.

The commercial real estate market is already contending with a historic downturn, but some investors now worry that servicers will make surprise decisions that end up significantly hurting their returns in deals.

The Irvine, California-based senior housing and assisted living property firm opened Wednesday at $12.85, after it sold 56 million shares for $12 and closed at $13.22.

More clarity around values and an urgent need to address looming debt maturities are expected to spark more deals, a report from Jones Lang LaSalle said.

The head of the short-selling firm Muddy Waters said he's short Blackstone Mortgage Trust, saying the publicly traded real estate investment trust is exposed to a perfect storm of economic conditions hitting commercial real estate and may face a liquidity crisis. 

WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, needs to slash costs and shore up its finances as it tries to continue operating.

WeWork may file its Chapter 11 petition in New Jersey as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter who it didn't name. 

In conjunction with an announcement last week, federal agencies will conduct training workshops to help developers, lenders and other stakeholders benefit from the Biden administration's housing supply plan.

Washington Trust shares plunged after the Westerly, Rhode Island, company disclosed it booked an office deal in the third quarter, boosting the size of its portfolio while other lenders are pulling back.

But a great deal of variation in distress levels were reported between individual markets and property sectors, according to two new reports.

The work-from-home era has wrecked old assumptions about the need for office space, leaving an unprofitable glut in the market, Willy Walker said.

Demand-driven inflation will continue to be a problem in the U.S. economy until we somehow work through trillions of excess liquidity provided by the Federal Open Market Committee, writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

Lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have been trying to sell debt backed by offices, hotels and even apartments in recent months, but many are finding that tidying up loan books is no easy feat when concerns about commercial real estate have surged.

The companies have requested an extension of the floating-rate loan, which matured in July, according to a servicer report.