The Private Credit Opportunity Key Takeaways Ultimately, private credit opportunities boil down to these factors: 1. The CRE private credit market in 2025 offers a promising avenue for investors seeking yield, diversification, and asset-backed securities.…
Ten Lessons from 15 Years Running Summer Street AdvisorsIt has been a wild ride. In 2009, during the height of the Great Financial Crisis, Summer Street Advisors was founded. Fifteen years later and we would not…
Charting a Course Amid Uncertainty: The New Reality for CRE Investors Key Takeaways 1. New Reality Emerges from the Shifting Investment Landscape: The era of low interest rates and inflated property values has ended, requiring CRE investors to recalibrate their…
Time for Banks to Face CRE Loan Realities Key Takeaways: The recent news of additional rate hikes by the Federal Reserve means that banks need to abandon their wait-and-see approaches and take an inventory of…
Key Takeaways: Value Decline – Due in large part to higher interest rates, properties and loans are worth less today than a year ago, creating significant refinancing risk and a need for creative solutions to…
If Remote Working is Here to Stay, What Happens to Office? Key Takeaways: Amid the widespread acceptance of a hybrid workplace model, office demand is declining and beginning to expose a glut of marginal /obsolete…
An Economy and Property Markets in Flux Calls for an Important Shift in Priorities Key Takeaways Growing uncertainty over market conditions and the impact on real estate values is driving the need for more cautious…
Risk-Off: Caution Reins as the Cost of Capital Rises Key Take-Aways The end of the cheap debt regime of the last decade has upended the commercial real estate market, casting doubt about real property values.…
How To Maximize Returns as The Fed Responds to Economic Uncertainty Key Take-Aways The Federal Reserve’s shift to quantitative tightening to rein in inflation is injecting more risk into real estate transactions. Rising interest rates…
As COVID-19 turned normalcy on its head two years ago, there was a silver lining I thought could materialize if U.S. manufacturers and political leaders reconsidered the wisdom of outsourcing so much production abroad. Establishing…