Lenders are starting to trickle back to office

by Sara Havlena

October 14, 2024
8:00 am

The outlook for office lending in 2025 is positive with meaningful improvements and increased liquidity. The market is starting to see some favorable trends in certain pockets relative to utilization, rents and vacancy. Watch for a flight to quality as lenders favor Class A office buildings. CMBS lenders will be active for well-performing office assets in strong markets. Banks will likely remain sidelined for the remainder of 2024 but will slowly and selectively re-enter the space in 2025 with building sales and loan sales starting to remove office loans from their balance sheets. More

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Sara Havlena

Havlena is the editor-in-chief of Crittenden Real Estate magazine and The Crittenden Report: Real Estate Financing, Retail Tenants Report and the Multifamily Report and their respective websites. She has been an editor with Crittenden since 2007 and worked on a variety of real estate publications during her time at the company covering a wide range of topics from restaurant expansion to real estate developers. She has been the lead reporter and editor of Crittenden’s flagship publication, The Crittenden Report, since 2011. She has a degree in Print Journalism from Cal State Fullerton, and resides in Orange County, Calif.

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