Commercial real estate loans, in particular construction and land loans, have become a simultaneously one of the most significant sources of risk for regional and small banks while remaining one of the least understood and studied types of debt. The lack of loan-level data on land, construction,...

This paper examines the contrasting influence of portfolio lending and securitization in the resolution of distressed commercial real estate. The empirical analysis utilizes a large and unique data set of distressed commercial mortgages. The data set is constructed based on the recent financial...

This paper extends what we know about loss given default (LGD) by examining a newly available dataset on commercial real estate (CRE) loan losses. These data come from 295 failed banks resolved by the FDIC using loss-share agreements between 2008 and 2013. We examine over 14,000 distressed CRE...