Seth Eaton Discusses Modifications and Workouts of Commercial Real Estate Loans during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states enacted, by executive order or otherwise, rules that have created both legal and procedural hurdles to a lender's ability to exercise its contractual rights, including the...more
Folks, last week I made the point that it’s extremely important to confront negative narratives about our industry before they take hold, creep into the interstices between things that are true and then somehow ossified into...more
Post-crisis commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS") issuance in Europe has been on the slow-burner with only a handful of transactions each year. The year 2018 saw European "CMBS 2.0" experience something of a revival...more
Contagion, at least of the buggy sort, can make for a terrific, spooky movie. Remember Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon in Contagion? (Spoiler alert – she dies early on.) Got to admit, I love The Stand and Captain Trips; we all...more
Although at first glance the underlying technology behind Bitcoin and mortgaged backed securities have little in common, blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize securitizations because it permits value and...more
In late 2011 and early 2012, the fragile green shoots of recovery began to peek out from the barren blasted heath of the crisis-blown financial markets. Market activity was spurred by a rare confluence of secular trends,...more
The “Preserving Access to CRE Capital Act of 2016” (the “Act”), sponsored by Representative French Hill (R-AR), was reported favorably to the House of Representatives on March 2, 2016 by the House Committee on Financial...more
Anyone working in the commercial real estate mortgage industry in the past five or six years is eager for signs of a sustained recovery. Having just returned from the Mortgage Bankers Association Commercial Real Estate...more