Commercial Real Estate - The Most Widely Advertised Crash In History
Is Armageddon Upon Us?
Predictions of Armageddon for the commercial real estate market are being urgently issued daily by prognosticators of doom. Many analysts are breathlessly predicting that collapsed real estate prices ensure a mountain of defaulting commercial real estate loans that will lead to the failure of thousands of small and regional banks. Problem [...]
Regulators Attempt To Solve Commercial Loan Crisis With “Extend and Pretend” Guidelines
“Huge Crash” In Commercial Real Estate Predicted
The potential for massive losses on commercial bank loans has been an open secret for some time now. Both industry experts and regulatory agencies are concerned that a wave of defaults on commercial loans could result in billions of losses for an already weakened banking system. The latest warning [...]
7 Reasons Not To Have Confidence In The Banking System
Does the recent strong rally in the shares of bank stocks imply that the banking crisis is over, or are we looking at a mirage? Here are 7 reasons why the banking crisis may only be in the early stages of an ongoing crisis which could ultimately result in a lack of public confidence in [...]
Banks Turn Blind Eye To Commerical Real Estate Losses
The attitude of banks towards the collapse of commercial real estate seems to be ” ignore it and it will go away”. Sometimes this strategy works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Right now, this “see no problem” attitude is beginning to raise eyebrows as losses on commercial real estate loans expand while corresponding loss reserves decline. Consider Fed [...]
