The dizzyingly complex securitized deals of the 2000s were a little like polygamous marriages in which the vows-in this case, pooling and servicing agreements…

The lease-accounting rule changes proposed this past summer by the International Accounting Standards Board and the US Financial Accounting Standards…

Early in the recession, commercial real estate investors eagerly awaited the flood of distressed properties expected to hit the market. They sat, they…

It's no great secret that even as distress continues to accumulate, foreclosures are slow in coming. The leeway banks have been given in modifying loans…

For-profit hospital companies are gearing up to spend billions buying hospitals this year following a two-year lull on the acquisition front, and several…

As more loan portfolios make their way to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the agency is finding innovative ways to work with the private sector.…

The great flood, at least in real estate terms, has not repeated history. Unlike in the previous distressed down cycle of the early 1990s, banks haven't…

A few months after the $3-billion first mortgage on the Peter Cooper Village/ Stuyvesant Town apartment complex in New York City first went into special…