Banks have continued making loan modifications for the third quarter, according to a Moody’s Ratings report. The median percentage of CRE loans to non-owner occupied (NOO) borrowers — measured in numbers of loans granted rather than as percentages of total dollar amounts — rose 65 basis points of total NOO CRE loans for the last nine months.

The Federal Reserve’s rate cuts so far offered “little opportunity for refinancing at reduced rates,” so extensions would seem likely part of the ongoing attempt to keep loans from sliding into delinquency and banks from having to write them down, Moody's said.

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