Commercial Real Estate Lenders Adapt to Higher-Forever Rates
Why this matters
Commercial real estate continues to digest a multi-year reset in cost of capital. Transaction velocity is below the 2019-2021 trend but improving, cap rates have stabilized across most stabilized property types, and the bid-ask gap has narrowed materially in the past two quarters. Sponsors with permanent capital and operating platforms have an advantage in the current execution environment. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Commercial real estate lenders entered 2026 with hopes of lower interest rates. Stubborn inflation compounded by a war with Iran quickly ended those dreams. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate a qua…
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