Commercial Real Estate Distress Is Spreading: Credit Weekly

The pain in US commercial real estate credit continues to bubble to the surface after a surge in borrowing costs and the rise of work from home left lenders vulnerable to losses.

Delinquencies continue to increase, though the rate has moderated, researcher Green Street said this past week. Distress is also climbing, rising 23% to more than $116 billion at the end of March from a year earlier, data compiled by MSCI Real Capital Analytics show. That’s the highest in more than a decade.

Investors including Victor Khosla of Strategic Value Partners LLC have warned that debt maturities will lead ...