Has Commercial Real Estate Reached its Peak?

SAN DIEGO—The good and bad news is that buoyed by a flood of capital, this year will be “the biggest for CRE ever,” said economist Sam Chandan, Ph.D., during Trigild‘s recent 15^th Annual Lender Conference here. Hundreds of real estate, legal and finance industry leaders joined keynote speakers economic forecaster and currently chief economist for Parsec Financial Management James Smith, Ph.D.and Chandan, president of Chandan Economics and adjunct professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, to examine the state of commercial real estate and overall economic trends at the annual conference, presented by the San Diego-based real estate services company.

According to Trigild president Judy Hoffman, with a special focus on non-performing loans, the conference was aimed at lenders, special servicers, legal counsel, investors and loan buyers. In addition to the keynote presentations, this year’s topics included successful strategies for non-traditional loans, a bankruptcy update, a CMBS fundamentals refresher, CRE funding and investment considerations and a legal lightning roundtable.