Credit Market Challenges & Changes

NAREIT leads industry efforts to restore liquidity in the credit markets and confidence in the financial system to bring stability to the economy and ensure that real estate credit markets return as soon as possible to a functional state.

• Slide presentation: “Credit Crisis in Commercial Real Estate” - 10/7/09

• FirstBrief: Federal Reserve and Treasury Department Extend TALF Program for Six Months - 8/17/09

• Letter from Members of Congress to Treasury and Federal Reserve Urging Extension of TALF Program - 7/31/09

• National Real Estate Organizations (NREO) Letter to Treasury on REMIC Reform - 7/24/09

• National Real Estate Organizations (NREO) Letter to U.S. Senate in Support of S. 823, the Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act - 6/5/09

• National Policy Bulletin: Federal Reserve Board Extends Financing to Legacy CMBS - 5/19/09

• Federal Reserve Announces that Certain High-Quality Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities will become Eligible Collateral under the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) - 5/19/09

• National Policy Bulletin: Federal Reserve Board Extends Financing to Commercial Real Estate - 5/2/09

• National Real Estate Organizations (NREO) Thank the Obama Administration for Including CRE in the TALF - 2/18/09

• Statutory Language for Cancellation of Debt Tax Provisions in the Final Stimulus Bill - 2/12/09

• National Policy Bulletin: Congressional Leaders Reach Stimulus Bill Compromise - 2/12/09

• Press Release: NAREIT Supports Obama Administration's Financial Stability Plan - 2/10/09 

• National Policy Bulletin: Obama Administration's Financial Stability Plan Extends Lending Initiative to Commercial Real Estate - 2/10/09

• NAREIT Supports Cancellation of Debt Legislation - 1/16/09

• NAREIT and other Groups Support CRE Provisions in H.R. 384 - 1/13/09

• TARP Reform and Accountability Act of 2009 as Introduced by Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) - 1/9/09

• Chairman Barney Frank Addresses Commercial Real Estate in Legislation on TARP Changes - 1/9/09

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Letter Regarding the Credit Crisis - 1/6/09

• National Real Estate Organizations (NREO) letter to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in support of extending the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to include commercial real estate mortgages - 11/26/08 

• National Policy Bulletin - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - 10/3/08

• Text of Public Law 110-343, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, describing the Targeted Assets Relief Program (TARP) - 10/3/08

• National Real Estate Organizations (NREO) Letter to Members of Congress in Support of H.R. 1424 - 10/2/08