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Loan Market Still Not Open for Business

More than 80% of would-be investors in US distressed debt portfolios haven't managed to complete a transaction over the past 12 months, Ernst & Young…

By Paul Bubny - Northeast region editor of GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum. | Updated on May 01, 2010

More than 80% of would-be investors in US distressed debt portfolios haven’t managed to complete a transaction over the past 12 months, Ernst & Young says in its recent survey of investors.

It wasn’t necessarily for lack of trying: 60.3% of respondents said they either bid on or priced the debt, and on a global basis, 54% of the respondents have either bought or attempted to buy a nonperforming loan portfolio somewhere in the world. Domestically, it’s still more of a waiting game, with 76% of the investors surveyed saying the US market is “still developing” and another 13% opining that it hasn’t even gotten started. “Up until now, most, but not all, banks have not been engaged in selling distressed loans,” leaving the FDIC to take the lead, E&Y’s Mark Grinis and Christopher Seyfarth write in the report. Seyfarth, a partner in E&Y’s real estate distress services group, notes that to date, most who would buy the debt have been frustrated simply because there isn’t enough of it on the market to satisfy investor appetite. “It takes two to tango,” he says. “Investors are all dressed up and they’re ready to dance, but the lenders never showed up to the party, and the biggest reason is that the pricing didn’t work for them.”

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