{"id":1004511919,"date":"2021-02-24T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internal.cpexecutive.com\/?p=1004511919"},"modified":"2021-05-15T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T18:08:58","slug":"cbre-reports-q4-cre-lending-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cbre-reports-q4-cre-lending-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"CBRE Reports Q4 CRE Lending Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased liquidity, tighter credit spreads and somewhat looser underwriting standards led to \u201ca sharp improvement\u201d in commercial real estate lending in the fourth quarter, according to CBRE\u2019s latest Lending Momentum Index.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cre-finance-outlook-brightens-report\/\">CRE Finance Outlook Brightens: Report<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As of December, the index, which is based on loans originated or brokered by CBRE Capital Markets, stood at 221 (against a baseline of 100 set in 2005), which represented decreases of 16 percent year-over-year and nearly 24 percent versus its February 2020 pre-pandemic level. Still, the 221 figure was a healthy 38.2 percent jump from September.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004512177\" style=\"width: 944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/Lending-momentum.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004512177\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004512177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/Lending-momentum.png\" alt=\"Lending momentum\" width=\"934\" height=\"396\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004512177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chart courtesy of CBRE Capital Markets and CBRE Research, Fourth Quarter 2020<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In announcing the results, CBRE attributed higher year-end lending volumes to rising equity prices and tighter corporate loan spreads. Meanwhile, since lending markets were anticipating the effects of additional government economic aid on growth and inflation, the fourth quarter of 2020 saw increased participation by alternative lenders and life companies compared to the third quarter. Some deals, principally those for retail, hotel and transitional assets \u201cremained challenging to underwrite.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Getting still better?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004512180\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/Alternative-lenders-life-companies.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004512180\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004512180 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/Alternative-lenders-life-companies.png\" alt=\"Alternative lenders, life companies top Q4 originations\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004512180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflects non-agency commercial\/multifamily loans. Chart courtesy of CBRE Capital Markets and CBRE Research, Fourth Quarter 2020<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Higher liquidity is coming in substantial measure from life companies, whose commercial real estate lending surged in late 2020 after a weak spring, from just over 20 percent of market share to nearly 30 percent. Their fourth-quarter originations, according to CBRE, were mostly low-leverage (53 percent average loan-to-value) permanent loans backed by industrial and multifamily properties.<\/p>\n<p>Underwriting became a bit less restrictive in the fourth quarter. The average LTV rose to 64.0 percent from 61.5 percent in the third quarter. The average interest rate slid to 3.08 percent from 3.34 percent in the prior quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, interest rates remained \u201cquite low\u201d on commercial mortgage loans closed in the fourth quarter, CBRE reported; more than 40 percent of these loans carried an interest rate of 3.0 percent or less.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004512183\" style=\"width: 931px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/LTV.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004512183\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004512183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/05\/LTV.png\" alt=\"Commercial, Multifamily LTVS Rise at Year-End \" width=\"921\" height=\"394\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004512183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chart courtesy of CBRE Research, Fourth Quarter 2020<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking ahead, Brian Stoffers, global president of Debt &amp; Structured Finance for Capital Markets at CBRE, told <em>Commercial Property Executive<\/em>: \u201cLenders of all sizes and types are ready to finance commercial and multifamily properties in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife companies, banks, debt funds, GSE\u2019s (Freddie, Fannie and FHA) and CMBS lenders all have large allocations ready to place in a variety of product types, including select hotels and retail,\u201d he continued. \u201cWith the recent run-up in 10-year Treasuries, some borrowers are now opting for floating-rate structures indexed with LIBOR or SOFR.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong year-end bounce is beginning to resemble pre-pandemic conditions, the firm\u2019s latest study found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004517710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21808,21825,45527,23891,21742],"tags":[33995,32789,35046,48950],"class_list":["post-1004511919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-finance","category-keyword-optimized","category-national","category-latest","tag-brian-stoffers","tag-cbre","tag-cbre-capital-markets","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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