ABA Bullish on CRE Lending
ByEight in 10 banks plan to increase their CRE concentrations in 2016, according to the American Bankers Association’s first-ever Commercial Real Estate Survey,
U.S. commercial real estate lending is robust, according to the American Bankers Association’s first-ever Commercial Real Estate Survey, released at the organization’s Real Estate Lending Conference in San Antonio on Tuesday. Fully eight in 10 banks surveyed said they plan to increase their CRE concentrations in 2016.
Currently, 19 percent of the surveyed banks have construction concentrations of more than 100 percent, while 9 percent have CRE concentrations of more than 300 percent. The most active asset classes—accounting for 62 percent of banks’ total CRE portfolios—are multifamily, office and retail…
