Extend and pretend kicks into high gear. For example, the $975 million mortgage on a San Francisco office tower. The portion of the $4.7 trillion in US commercial real estate debt that will come due this year – and in theory must be paid off through a sale,...
That’s what “spread far and wide” means. During the US CRE bubble, yield-chasers not just in the US but globally gorged on invincible US CRE. We talked a lot about how exposure to the massive losses in US commercial real estate has been spread far and wide,...
Japanese, Canadian, and European banks started to confess. And for over a year, huge losses have hit investors, not banks. What’s amazing about the mess of the office sector of commercial real estate (CRE) is just how far and wide these mega-losses – by some...
