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Retail Reigns Over Distress in the Empire

Within the Inland Empire's commercial real estate market, retail accounts for the most significant amount of distress, as many developers built ahead…

By Bernard J. Haddigan - Atlanta-based national director of special assets services at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. | Updated on December 09, 2011

Within the Inland Empire’s commercial real estate market, retail accounts for the most significant amount of distress, as many developers built ahead of rooftops that now sit largely vacant or failed to materialize altogether. Furthermore, investment activity intensified dramatically from 2005 to 2007, a period when prices were at or near peak levels, high leverage loans were commonplace and underwriting criteria was most lax.

More than half of the outstanding CMBS debt in the Inland Empire market is backed by retail properties, and about three-quarters of this debt was originated between 2005 and 2007. In the CMBS segment, foreclosures/REOs are more typical than modifications and extensions in the Inland Empire retail sector. Given the significant number of delinquent CMBS retail loans in the market, more discounted assets are likely to become available to investors this year.

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