The distressed banks of the 1980s and early '90s gave market players a pretty good idea of what was going to happen when lenders began to take on defaulting…

More than a month ago, the 2,300-plus page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law. It will be months, possibly…

Early in the recession, commercial real estate investors eagerly awaited the flood of distressed properties expected to hit the market. They sat, they…

It's no great secret that even as distress continues to accumulate, foreclosures are slow in coming. The leeway banks have been given in modifying loans…

Last year's hyped deluge of distress has materialized into a drip. Yet, the promise of 2009 was that the lemons of 2005, 2006 and 2007 would finally…

The great flood, at least in real estate terms, has not repeated history. Unlike in the previous distressed down cycle of the early 1990s, banks haven't…

As more loan portfolios make their way to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the agency is finding innovative ways to work with the private sector.…

Would-be buyers of distressed office properties can see the troubled buildings just waiting to be marketed. They can see them on the balance sheets of…