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Altus Group's second-quarter 2026 survey of CRE borrowers and lenders indicates a shift in market relief sources for commercial real estate debt.
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The Trepp Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) Delinquency Rate increased 51 basis points to 7.86% in July, as the total balance of delinquent loans rose by $3.52 billion to $47.5 billion. Among the loans that became newly delinquent during the month were 30 multifamily loans totaling $509.3 million. A…

Markets are separating into distinct clusters of momentum. The post A More Localized Multifamily Recovery Emerges appeared first on Lument .

Credit conditions on loans for residential Land Acquisition, Development & Construction (AD&C) were still tightening in the second quarter of 2026, according to NAHB’s quarterly survey on AD&C Financing. The net easing index derived from the survey posted a second-quarter reading of -12.0 (the negative number…

CRE Loan Modifications: May–July 2026 Report Summary. CRED iQ tracked 82 modified CMBS and CRE CLO loans with a combined $2.36 billion in outstanding balance from May through July 2026. The mix looks different than it did a few quarters ago: extend-and-pretend hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer the whole story.…
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Among commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) mall loans, 96.3% of non-performing loans were written in 2016 or earlier, while loans written in 2017 or later are performing at essentially a 100% rate. The CMBS mall-loan market is not one population with a range of outcomes. It is two, split by origination…

Why we keep an eye on the housing-debt-to-income ratio.

Walker & Dunlop outlines primary financing sources available to multifamily investors seeking to expand their rental property portfolios.

Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners discusses their disciplined approach to debt capital deployment amid current market cycle opportunities.

Guidance on how evolving FHA lending policies and requirements are affecting multifamily sponsors and their financing strategies.

Bangkok's condo market is becoming increasingly polarised, with luxury projects continuing to outperform while the broader residential sector remains weighed down by weak purchasing power and tighter mortgage lending.

Arbor Realty Trust’s latest Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, evaluates what’s driving this sector’s ongoing stability as macroeconomic conditions remain mixed. Loan originations rose last quarter, and valuations are rebounding, signaling that normalization…

Energy costs directly impact tenant behavior. The post When Energy Prices Ripple Through Multifamily appeared first on Lument .

Analysis of German commercial real estate investment volume and financing conditions for Q2 2026.
Disclaimer: This is an excerpt from Trepp's "Investors Priced Four Data Center Deals 55 Basis Points Apart ” report. Click here to access. Four recent data center single-asset, single-borrower (SASB) commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) deals priced their last-pay AAA bonds across a 55-basis-point range.…

Mortgage application activity slowed in July amid continuation of the war in Iran. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Market Composite Index, a measure of total mortgage application volume, declined 6.6% month-over-month in July on a seasonally adjusted basis. Compared to a year ago, total mortgage…

Benefit Street Partners examines investment opportunities emerging from stressed commercial real estate debt markets.

Market overview of the broadly syndicated loan market across Europe, Middle East, and Africa in 2024 year-to-date.
Analysis of private lenders' increased activity in commercial real estate debt markets during a period of economic headwinds and market stress.
Analysis of debt pressures facing office landlords amid broader commercial real estate market challenges.
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Domestic private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issuance reached $76.2 billion through July 2026, measured by loan balance when each deal was sold, according to Trepp data as of July 31. Single-asset, single-borrower (SASB) deals, each backed by one property or one owner, made up $58.0 billion.…

Existing home sales continued to slow in July as record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates weighed on buyers. Mortgage rates resumed an upward trend after the ceasefire ended in early July. Heightened geopolitical uncertainty and an increasingly hawkish stance from the Fed pushed rates to nearly 6.7% last…

Demand for all types of residential mortgages was weaker, while lending standards for most were essentially unchanged in the second quarter of 2026, according to the recent release of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS). For commercial real estate (CRE) loans, lending standards for construction &…

Analysis of how upcoming student housing loan maturities may influence market dynamics and refinancing conditions rather than triggering widespread distress.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management assesses the private credit market environment, noting improving pricing power and accelerating financing demand for scaled lenders driven by cyclical and secular forces.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management examines the resilience of European private credit markets, addressing current market concerns including non-private credit defaults, AI disruption, and BDC comparisons while assessing supply-demand dynamics and illiquidity premiums.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management explores how macroeconomic pressures including energy costs, inflation, and geopolitical volatility are affecting real estate fundamentals and creating opportunities within private real estate credit markets.

An overview of six main private credit strategies, their mechanics, key benefits and risks, and how each fits within private asset portfolios.

Altus Group's survey of CRE borrowers and lenders reveals a commercial real estate debt market experiencing conflicting pressures and directional forces.

Analysis of economic, capital markets, and real estate data examining factors that shape debt and equity availability and pricing for commercial real estate practitioners.

Altus Group's fourth quarter 2025 survey of CRE borrowers and lenders reveals mixed signals about the current state of the debt market.
Disclaimer: This is an excerpt from Trepp's July 2026 CMBS Special Servicing Report. To access the full report, click here. The Trepp commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) special servicing overall rate declined 11 basis points in July to 11.09%, partially reversing the increases of recent months.

Across the 50 largest commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) markets, $45.8 billion of $393.5 billion in outstanding balance is currently distressed, a balance-weighted rate of 11.6 percent, according to CRED iQ data. Minneapolis, Denver and Oklahoma City lead the distress rankings at 55.1 percent, 35.9…

PGIM analysis of securitized product market conditions, trends, and investment positioning for the first quarter.

PGIM examines middle market direct lending strategies, analyzing opportunities, advantages and common misconceptions in the asset class.

Analysis of how public and private credit markets are becoming increasingly interconnected and blurred in their characteristics and investment dynamics.
PGIM explores structural trends and implications of the convergence between public and private credit markets.

Attorney Jung Bo-geun explains seller financing as a form of private lending in Korea's property market, its legal status as a quasi-loan, and the risks under the Lending Business Act and Interest Limitation Act.

Underwriting expectations for occupancy during the multifamily market's post-pandemic boom reflected the strong demand that characterized the market in 2021. Record apartment deliveries in the years since have reshaped market conditions, creating a widening gap between those expectations and current occupancy…
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Multifamily has become a more important component of conduit commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) at the same time that recent-vintage performance has become harder to generalize. Multifamily represented roughly 20% to 23% of conduit securitization balance in 2024 through July 2026, compared with only 7% in…

Transitional lending was once viewed as a temporary financing solution. Today, it’s becoming a core strategy for life insurers as banks continue moving out of commercial real estate lending, according to a new report from Nuveen. The report said that lower property valuations, tighter banking regulations and a wave…

Across the 50 largest CMBS markets, $45.8 billion of $393.5 billion in outstanding balance is currently distressed, a balance-weighted rate of 11.6%. Minneapolis (55.1%), Denver (35.9%), and Oklahoma City (34.1%) lead the rankings, each shaped by a handful of very large loans rather than broad weakness, while Salt…
Second-quarter earnings calls from banks with meaningful multifamily concentrations showed significant divergence in performance and pipelines. The ten banks differed not only from one another but, with two exceptions, also from recent super-regional commentary, where lenders reported stronger pipelines and…

The August 2026 private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) hard-maturity 1 cohort totals $5.49 billion across 130 loan pieces 2 comprising 119 whole loans, roughly double July's $2.55 billion. Of the total, 125 loan pieces ($5.36 billion, 97.51%) are performing, while five loan pieces ($136.6…

Bij de Nederlandse woningbouwopgave gaat veel aandacht uit naar stikstof, vergunningen, ruimtelijke ordening en personeelstekorten. Maar daarmee raakt een fundamenteler probleem onderbelicht: de beschikbaarheid van kapitaal, schrijven vastgoedfinancieringsexperts Roel van de Bilt en Rob Wismans in hun nieuwste…
Multifamily standards eased modestly during Q2, driven entirely by large banks, while aggregate demand remained essentially unchanged despite a sharp split by bank size. Trepp-i spreads are already at the bottom of their post-2021 range, suggesting that further competition may increasingly surface in loan structure…
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Eight of the 11 super-regional banks with comparable linked-quarter data reported higher commercial real estate (CRE) balances in the second quarter. But growth was uneven, and at several banks reflected acquisitions, greater utilization, or extensions that delayed runoff as much as new originations, while legacy…

For commercial real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities investors, brokers and lenders trying to separate signal from noise in a choppy market, granularity is everything. CRED iQ‘s July 2026 reporting period data looks to provide exactly that with a loan-level view of distress across the $600…

Commercial real estate lending is reopening in 2026, as Fed rate stability, bank activity, CMBS demand and selective capital reshape refinancing. The post The Fed Stayed Put. The CRE Lending Market Has Not. appeared first on Propmodo .

German commercial real estate is approaching the busiest refinancing year of the current cycle, with more than €40bn in loans maturing in 2026 — and most of that debt was priced when interest rates were a fraction of today's levels. The resulting financing gap could exceed €6bn this year alone, according to new…

For three years, German real estate has been waiting for a wave of non-performing loans to break. It hasn't happened — and not because the underlying distress isn't real. According to panellists at a recent PB3C webinar on how Germany's property market is dealing with financial distress, lenders, borrowers and fund…

Germany's property finance market entered 2026 with a fragile optimism that has not survived contact with reality. The German Real Estate Financing Index — the Difi , compiled quarterly by JLL and the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) — fell by almost ten points in Q1 2026 to minus 9.1, slipping…

Senior loan spreads in European commercial real estate have nearly tripled since the start of 2024, rising from 1.1% to 3.2% over EURIBOR. That is not a cyclical wobble. It is a structural repricing of debt — and new data published in mid-May suggests the shift is accelerating.

Sortable data, thoughtful analysis, and expert insights await. The post 2026 Argentum Largest Seniors Housing Providers: Report Takeaways appeared first on Lument .
Disclaimer: This text is an excerpt from Trepp's July 2026 CMBS Delinquency Report. To access the full analysis of the report, click here. The Trepp commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) Delinquency Rate increased by 51 basis points to 7.86% in July 2026, led by a group of very large loans whose status moved…

CRED iQ’s July 2026 surveillance data shows the Overall Distress Rate for CMBS climbed to 10.91%, up 22 basis points month-over-month, driven primarily by a 42-bps jump in the Special Servicing Rate to 10.38%. The Delinquency Rate rose more modestly, to 8.68%. For CRE and CMBS investors, brokers, and lenders trying…

Multifamily fundamentals are moving toward equilibrium. The post Summer 2026 National Multifamily Market Report: The New Normal Begins to Take Shape appeared first on Lument .
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Commercial loan growth returned across the regional bank group and competition continues for relationship-driven commercial credit even as some banks report modest increases in non-performing assets. Second-quarter results from 11 super-regional banks delivered a more constructive lending signal than in the first…

Delinquency rates for mortgages backed by commercial properties decreased during the second quarter of 2026. That’s according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest commercial real estate finance (CREF) Loan Performance Survey, which reported that CMBS delinquencies declined during Q2 but remain…

Zinsumfeld. Die EZB hat ihre Zinsen im Juli nicht verändert, der weitere Kurs der Notenbank hängt stark von den Energiepreisen und daher der Situation in Nahost ab. Die Zinspause beruhigt den Markt zwar etwas, den schleppenden Abbau von Problemfinanzierungen kann sie aber kaum beflügeln. Ein Studie von Roland…