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  2. Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Lehman's bankruptcy was expected to cause some depreciation in the price of commercial real estate. The prospect for Lehman's $4.3 billion in mortgage securities getting liquidated sparked a selloff in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market. Additional pressure to sell securities in commercial real estate was feared as Lehman ...

  3. Top economist who predicted 2008 housing crash says the ... - AOL

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    Office is the most prominent sign of a struggling commercial real estate market. The commercial real estate collapse has been most evident in the office sector, with vacancy rates at nearly 1.5 ...

  4. 2008 financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    Three years later, commercial real estate started feeling the effects." [verification needed] [290] Denice A. Gierach, a real estate attorney and CPA, wrote: ... most of the commercial real estate loans were good loans destroyed by a really bad economy. In other words, the borrowers did not cause the loans to go bad-it was the economy. [291]

  5. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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    To achieve these deregulatory aims, the financial industry, including commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance companies, made $1.725 billion in political campaign contributions and spent $3.4 billion on industry lobbyists during the years 1998–2008. In 2007, close to 3,000 federal lobbyists worked for ...

  6. What’s next for commercial real estate after the $500 billion ...

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    Sooner or later, commercial real estate’s day of reckoning had to come. Following an era of “cheap money” that stretched all the way back to the 2008 housing crash and Great Financial Crisis ...

  7. What's causing the slow motion commercial real estate crash?

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  8. Real-estate bubble - Wikipedia

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    US house price trend (1998–2008) as measured by the Case–Shiller index Ratio of Melbourne median house prices to Australian annual wages, 1965 to 2010. As with all types of economic bubbles, disagreement exists over whether or not a real estate bubble can be identified or predicted, then perhaps prevented.

  9. Why This Economist Thinks A Major Commercial Real Estate ...

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    Meta-Description: A leading economist is warning that the FDIC could be overwhelmed if a commercial real estate crisis causes multiple regional banks to fail. Although the Federal Reserve's latest ...