Your 2026 CRE Summer Reading List: Trepp's Top 5 Beach Reads

Trepp's article curates five research pieces on commercial real estate finance topics relevant to mid-2026, highlighting studies on CMBS issuance, CRE CLO market recovery, office delinquency rates, bank CRE risk assessment, and hard maturity refinancing challenges. The article reports that CRE CLO issuance reached $11.2 billion by early March 2026 (up 34% year-over-year), office CMBS delinquencies hit 12.34% in January 2026, and $76.6 billion in CMBS loans faced hard maturity in 2026 with 36% carrying debt yields at or below 8%.