Foreclosures Are Now Spreading Its Tentacles towards Commercial Properties
December 30th, 2008
Foreclosures are now spreading its tentacles towards commercial properties causing many jumbo developers to go the government with the begging bowl asking for bailouts. Policy makers are being warned that innumerable office buildings, hotels, malls and many other commercial complexes are rushing towards defaults that will end up in foreclosures as well as bankruptcies. This is because in the forthcoming three years commercial mortgages will be facing increase in mortgage rates. Meanwhile credit has nearly vanished and cash flow from these commercial units is drying up.
Commercial mortgages have to be repaid within five, seven or may be ten years. Towards the end big payments have to be made. This is the point when refinancing is done. If the borrower is not eligible for this then the lender forecloses upon the property.
To minimize some of the impending pain the building industry wants it to be included in a $200 billion loan plan that will be created by the government to save the market for various types of loans – car, student, credit card etc. The money will go straight to the help the investors finance buy securities that have as collaterals these assets. If commercial properties are included then the banks will have an incentive to easily grant loans to the developers, as they would be able to repackage and dispose of them easily to investors because of the backing by the government.
Representatives from the building industry have suggested to the lawmakers to mull over the idea of initiating a distinct programme that will concentrate on lending only to the commercial real estate. Steve Spinola of Real Estate Board of New York stressed the need of the government to play a prominent role in lending either directly or indirectly to the commercial building sector. He said, “We’ve been urging Washington to put this as one of the top priorities in dealing with the economy.”
A warning has been given out by the real estate pundits that the impending crisis in commercial property mortgages will pose another more serious threat to the international financial system. The latter is already gasping on a life support. Rental rates are falling and more houses are lying vacant. Delinquencies in commercial mortgages are sharply increasing. Till now commercial estate mortgage levels have remained below record-breaking levels largely because of the check imposed on speculative construction during the last few years. But this situation will not remain so in the very near future. Foreclosures are knocking.
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