Following rumors that have lasted for months, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is securitizing assets of banks that it has seized, assests from Franklin…

Whether distress commercial real estate investors realize it or not, the various companies that C-III Capital Partners LLC is acquiring represents a…

Days after Standard & Poor's downgraded the US credit rating, Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG brought to market a new (at least new since the financial…

Moody's Investors Service recently downgraded Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, a move that is expected to have a ripple effect through the…

There are only a handful of B-piece buyers active in the market now. If the commercial real estate industry wants to see CMBS transactions push past…

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…

Remember the days when delinquency rates for CMBS were less than 1% and the industry viewed a 5% or even 10% default rate as unfathomable? Well, hold…

Finally it is done. In the middle of July, in a 60 to 39 vote, the Senate passed the overhaul of the financial system after nearly a year of debate that…