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The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders narrowed slightly week-over-week with financing available at attractive rates (5.25%+/-).

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads narrowing 3+/- basis points during a quiet week leading up to a three-day weekend. Average spreads of 215 basis points combined with “sub-2” percent 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds remains attractive to say the least.

Gathering Place is a new park covering 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) on Tulsa’s waterfront along the Arkansas River. It is the largest public park created with private money, funded by $400 million from the George Kaiser Family Foundation through a public/private partnership with the city of Tulsa. The park incorporates the natural landscape into its design, using the river as a central feature and incorporating the natural topography with human-made topographic elements.

According to an analysis completed by Trepp LLC, “U.S. banks are going to face increased challenges in 2012, with slow earnings growth, a mild improvement in loan performance and continued bank failures.” Banks, it was noted, are continuing to face a tough regulatory environment, compounded by fewer and fewer opportunities for future earnings growth.

This week’s Monday’s Numbers should be subtitled: “Credit Suisse Group Sells $2.8 Billion European Commercial Property Loan Portfolio for $1.2 Billion”

The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders remained unchanged as a decrease in spreads was offset by an increase in 10-year Treasury bonds. An all-in cost of 5.25% - 5.30% remains very attractive.

The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders was unchanged. There seems to be an all-in cost of 5.0% “glass ceiling” in place. For the survey period, average all-in cost equaled 4.80 percent.

The Commercial Mortgage Alert Trepp weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders remained unchanged; financing appears available at attractive rates (5.25% - 5.50%). Absent a severe “shock to the system”, rates seem likely to fluctuate within this narrow band for the foreseeable future.

The Trepp LLC survey showed spreads widening as much as 15 basis points for no apparent reason we know of except, possibly, the continuing crises in Europe and concerns that the U.S. will catch their flu. Fortunately, money is plentiful with a majority of the widening of spreads offset by the lower yields on 10-year Treasury bonds.

Net-zero-energy (NZE) buildings were the focus at a recent conference in California, a state that has mandated that all new commercial buildings must be net-zero energy by 2030, and 50 percent of the existing commercial structures must be retrofitted.