Finance Comment

Rising property values not LTVs to blame for bad loans

By 2 April 2015

Frequency of losses by original LTV

A detailed study of more than 1,000 European CMBS loans over the past 15 years reveals rising property values, not rising loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, were to blame for commercial real estate loans going bad.

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