Posted by admin on May 1, 2009 under Good Info - Read It, by Tim Davis | 
by Tim Davis
As we all know, unlike residential mortgages, commercial paper is ammortized over a longer period of 20-30 years, but they have terms or balloon payment dates. Most popular commercial loans are for 5 year terms. If you calculate backwards and figure when the commercial market was at its peak, from mid-2006 to mid-2007, those notes will be coming due in 2010-2011.
It is foreseeable that the financing in place on that commercial property will be difficult to renew, Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on April 26, 2009 under Old News - and some New |
I bumped into this story online yesterday – some interesting news that I found encouraging
- Tim
WASHINGTON – April 22, 2009 – Senior real estate executives believe market conditions in the income-producing real estate sector – encompassing office buildings, shopping malls, warehouses, hotels, and apartment buildings – are getting better, Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on April 22, 2009 under Good Info - Read It, by Tim Davis |
by Bill Davis
General Contractor of Industrial Pre-Engineered Buildings
“Surviving the current economy – An Analysis of bank lending practices of 1979-1983 “
Investment Alert! Warning bells were going off and a sense of déjà vu when I received my second phone call from a commercial real estate investor having problems renewing his commercial loan. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on April 9, 2009 under Good Info - Read It, by Tim Davis |
by Tim Davis
Someone asked me today if I thought this was the bottom of the market. The tone in which he asked me reminded me of a story from my youth:
Once a regular customer of my father’s building supply store posed him the question, “Hey, what can you sell me here real cheap that I could take to the flea market on the weekend to sell and make some money on?” Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on April 8, 2009 under Good Info - Read It, by Tim Davis |
By Tim Davis
The prolonged slump in the commercial real estate market is leading to some fantastic deals to be had on existing buildings with extended periods of vacancy. Several examples of buildings in the area that are now being offered at radically reduced base rents… Read more of this article »
Posted by Clarke on March 27, 2009 under Good Info - Read It |
With loan defaults rising, analysts say the struggling commercial real estate industry is poised to fall into the worst crisis since the last great property bust of the early 1990s.
Delinquency rates on loans for hotels, offices, retail and industrial buildings have risen sharply in recent months and are likely to soar through the end of 2010 as companies lay off workers, downsize or shut their doors. Read more of this article »
