The end of 2007 was a tense time for commercial real estate. The subprime mortgage crisis had spread worldwide, the lending market had dried up, and the Federal Reserve began to cut interest rates in a bid to stop turmoil in the housing and financial markets from tanking the economy...

Blackstone has sold an office campus in Costa Mesa for $91.5 million — about 10 percent less than what it assembled it for between 2013 and 2015. MGR Real Estate, run by Michael Rademaker, bought the 553,000-square-foot complex at 3070 and 3100 Bristol Street, according to Orange County property records. The sale came to about $165…

Nearly $12 billon of loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) became newly delinquent, pushing the late payment rate up by 34 basis points from June to 3.93%, a report by credit rating agency KBRA said on Wednesday...

It's traditional in lease negotiations for the owner of an office building to ask a prospective tenant to show proof that they are in good financial standing and can be expected to pay rent every month....

In New York and London, owners of gleaming office towers are walking away from their debt rather than pouring good money after bad. The landlords of downtown San Francisco’s largest mall have abandoned it. A new Hong Kong skyscraper is only a quarter leased...

Vacant office space is piling up in California's Silicon Valley as technology companies reassess their workspace needs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Office vacancies in San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale rose to 17% in June...

The long-anticipated wave of distressed CRE assets is closer to realization, with total distressed assets coming in at $64B during Q1 2023, Bloomberg reports, citing a new report by MSCI Real Assets...

In the last six months of 2022, visits to LA Fitness gyms in the Houston suburbs rose between 10% and 38%, according to Placer.ai.  In the 610 loop however, visits declined by 2% to 18%. COVID cases have mostly gone away, but the hybrid work model the pandemic spawned has not...

For the past few months, reality has been setting in for owners of U.S. office buildings. Many of them have debt coming due on buildings worth much less today...