Global information service provider Real CapitalAnalytics tracks not only commercial propertysales, but also corporate- and property-level economicdistress that could affect property markets and property owners.This would contain all classes of owners and developers who findthemselves overextended or otherwise unable to meet theirobligations, as opposed to banks, mortgage REITs and other lendergroups or debt owners who find themselves in possession of realestate they have taken control of via foreclosure or similarmethods.

For Distressed Asset Investments, RCA provides amonthly listing of direct-investment properties financed withbalance sheet and CMBS loans. The properties here fall into one oftwo categories: Resolved, which representsproperties that have moved out of distress via refinancing orthrough a sale to a financially stable third party, andLender REO, which signifies properties that firstmortgage lenders have taken back through foreclosure. Thetransaction side of the RCA data set sees this as a foreclosuresale with the defaulted mortgagee as seller and the recoveringlender as buyer to show the property changing hands. Click on thechart below to access the data.