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Volume 2 - Number 7 | April 14, 2005
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TOP NEWS: ‘One-Stop’ Finance Shops Boosting Their Profile
By Erika Morphy
One-stop shopping services offered by real estate financiers—finance houses that provide coordinated senior, subordinate and mezzanine financing—are on their way to becoming a mainstream offering. One insider estimates that close to 50% of all real estate transactions are now financed through such institutions.
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10 MINUTES WITH…..Peter Korpacz
By Erika Morphy
Peter Korpacz’s quarterly barometer measuring the health of the commercial real estate markets has become an industry tradition. With another quarterly survey freshly released, DEJ sat down with Korpacz, who is also the director of PricewaterhouseCoopers' global strategic real estate research practice
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California Multifamily Market Continues to Surge
By Benjamin Mark Cole
Much of the nation’s multifamily market might be in a persistent slump, but that’s certainly not true on the West Coast. There, as it has been for some time now, it’s good news for property owners, bad news for tenants.
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CMBS Watch: Supporters Have High Hopes for REMIC Modernization Act This Year
By Erika Morphy
Supporters of the legislation to modernize real estate mortgage investment conduits were sorely disappointed last year when the proposal, fittingly called the REMIC Modernization Act, died in committee. It wasn’t that the proposed law was controversial or lacked support; rather, its defeat was due strictly to the fact that it had been attached to a particularly complex piece of tax legislation, the US Jobs Creation Act. But this year, legislation has been introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and proponents predict that—given its wide bipartisan support—it will finally be passed.
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What's Hot, What's Not
By Erika Morphy
What’s Hot: Large loan underwriting for CMBS—A recent study by Fitch Ratings Service has found that, despite concerns over the rise in CMBS large loans, current net cash flows for these transactions are performing at, or better than, underwritten net cash flows.
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