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These Banks Have High CRE Concentrations

A recent analysis by a Florida Atlantic University finance expert provides some clarity.

By Erika Morphy | June 12, 2024 at 05:46 AM

It is little secret that the market is worried about regional banks that have a high concentration of commercial real estate loans. Moody’s just placed six banks on review for their concentration of loans in this category. And now Pacific Investment Management Co., or Pimcoexpects more regional bank failures in the US because of a “very high” concentration of troubled commercial real estate loans on their books. “The real wave of distress is just starting” for lenders to everything from malls to offices, John Murray, Pimco’s head of global private commercial real estate team, told Bloomberg in an interview.

For distress investors this portends possible deals on the horizon. Murray noted that larger banks have been disposing of some of their higher quality assets first to avoid deeper losses. “As stressed loans grow due to maturities, however, we expect that banks will start selling these more challenged loans to reduce their troubled loan exposures,” he said, adding that for the past 18 months Pimco has been purchasing CRE loans offloaded by some large US banks.

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