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- Local Company Provides Cash Solutions for Commercial Property Owners
- In a perfect world, everyone has great credit, golden tax returns and enough capital to personally fund their next acquisition. Unfortunately, about 90% of us do not live in that world. The fact is many of us will not qualify through traditional banks. So, what is the alternative? Welcome all...
- Research articles 2006-02-15
- Commercial Property Weighs on Banks: Fed Official
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks continue to face significant challenges, particularly from rising delinquencies in commercial real estate and commercial loans, a Federal Reserve official said on Monday."Credit losses at banking organizations continue to rise, and banks face risks of sizable additional credit losses given the outlook for production and...
- News items 2009-11-30
- Stressed Property Loans Rocket in H1
- By Sinead CruiseLONDON (Reuters UK) - Failing commercial property loans pose a growing threat to Britain's banking sector revival, after the sum of debts breaching covenants soared by 75 percent to 18.7 billion pounds in the first half of 2009, research shows.The UK Commercial Property Lending Market survey from De...
- News items 2009-12-04
- Bank Lending and Commercial Property Cycles: Some Cross-Country Evidence
- Motivated by the frequently observed link between commercial property price volatility and banking crises, this paper investigates at a macroeconomic level the determination of commercial property prices and the interaction between commercial property prices and bank lending. It develops a reduced-form theoretical model which suggests bank lending is closely related...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Commercial Property Prices and Bank Performance
- The paper seeks to assess the effect of changes in commercial property prices on bank behavior and performance in a range of industrialized economies, extending the existing micro literature on bank performance. The results suggest that, consistent with macro-level studies, commercial property prices have a marked impact on the behavior...
- White papers 2004-09-15
- Many Banks Unprepared for CRE Bust
- Anyone catch this scary stat in that WSJ story yesterday on the Fed's concerns about commercial real estate? In another sign that many U.S. financial institutions are inadequately protected against potential losses on commercial real-estate loans, banks with heavy exposure to such loans set aside just 38 cents in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Troubled CRE Loans Threaten Banks, Economy
- Banking is back, green shoots are poking through the permafrost and investors are partying like its 1999. But not so fast. A perfect storm is gathering around the commercial real estate sector that could swamp banks, particularly regional institutions, according to consulting firm Oxford Analytica (registration...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Our Next Financial Showdown: Commercial Real Estate
- Updated August 19, 2009 The U.S. economy is not out of the woods, but important indicators are at least signaling the end of the freefall in the housing market. Our next worry may be commercial real estate, which has been going through the same cycle of falling...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
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- Fitch downgrades NAB's Clydesdale Bank
- AAP Global ratings agency FitchRatings has downgraded the credit rating of National Australia Bank's NAB UK subsidiary, Clydesdale Bank, on a likely rise in impairment charges from exposure to the UK commercial property market. Fitch affirmed NAB's long-term credit rating at AA with a stable outlook, but said there was...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Acquiring Commercial Property
- Buying a commercial property typically involves greater risks and a heavier financial commitment than renting, but it may be the only way to acquire the right location for your business. It will become an asset to your business, too, and one that should increase its equity. Before making the choice,...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- USF&G joins KeyCorp with small business as the target.(commercial property/casualty insurance)
- Baltimore-based insurer USF&G and KeyCorp, a Cleveland-based bank, jointly announced they are developing a strategic alliance to market commercial property-casualty insurance to KeyCorp's small-business customers. The new insurance operation Baltimore-based insurer USF&G and KeyCorp, a Cleveland-based bank, jointly announced they...
- Research articles 1997-10-27
- Commercial Property Woes Reveal Bank Insolvency
- Anthony Alfidi submits: Reading between the lines in this Bloomberg article tells us everything we need to know about why the economy is in a phantom recovery and why this bear market rally is built on nothing. Let's take a look at commercial real estate: Commercial-property sales in the...
- External links 2009-09-13
- Las Vegas: Foreclosures Hit Resorts and Casinos
- Las Vegas was once known as the home foreclosure capital of the country, but now its commercial and retail districts are becoming bank-owned. So far, Las Vegas is leading the nation in commercial forclosures. According to the Las Vegas Sun, the numbers pan out like this: $4.48 billion in land.  $2.4...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- A Quantitative Framework for Commercial Property and its Relationship to the Analysis of the Financial Stability of the Corporate Sector
- This paper develops a quantitative framework for analysis of the UK commercial property sector and the possible implications for the financial stability of this sector, and for the corporate sector as a whole. There is little previous empirical literature. But where there is, models have either studied particular markets or...
- White papers 2003-11-18
- Bond Street Gets Loan Pipeline.(Bond Street Capital is named the preferred lender for commercial-property buyers advised by Coldwell Banker and Century 21)(Brief Article)
- Bond Street Capital has been named the preferred lender for commercial-property buyers advised by Coldwell Banker and Century 21. The designation gives the West Palm Beach, Fla., mortgage bank a leg up on winning financing assignments from clients of the two brokerages. ...
- Research articles 2003-08-15
- Ulmer & Berne LLP, CB Richard Ellis, LaSalle Bank, and Inside Business Team Up to Host Forum on Gaming in Ohio
- Should Cleveland Take a Gamble? CLEVELAND -- Ulmer & Berne LLP, CB Richard Ellis, LaSalle Bank, and Inside Business magazine have teamed up to host the 7th Annual Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker Forum, "Gaming in Ohio: Should Cleveland Take a Gamble?" on Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 7:30 -...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. Announces Bank Subsidiary Hires Director of Loan Production in Its Income Property Lending Division
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Commercial Capital Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:CCBI) announced today that its subsidiary bank, Commercial Capital Bank (the "Bank"), has hired Mr. Morgan Ferris as a Director of Loan Production in its income property lending division. Mr. Ferris brings to the Bank over 10 years of income property...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- Sponda Plc acquires property from OKO Bank
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-13 November 2003-Sponda Plc acquires property from OKO BankC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Finnish real estate investment company Sponda Plc said on Thursday (13 November) that it would acquire a commercial and office property in Helsinki from the Finnish commercial bank OKO Bank, part of the financial...
- Research articles 2003-11-13
- Midsize Banks Most Vulnerable to Looming Commercial Real Estate Bust
- I've written before about the bomb that's set to fall on U.S. banks in the form of deteriorating commercial real estate loans. Many of these institutions are already buckling because of high losses on their home loans. So a bust in CRE mortgages would hurt, and could be the coup...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Need to know: Bingo tax burden ... Altria profits rise ... Boots health website ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: Bank of England policymakers voted unanimously this month to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent and to keep the size of its asset purchase programme unchanged at £175 billion, the minutes from the meeting of the Bank's Monetary...
- News items 2009-10-21
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