Monday, January 25, 2010

CRE Bomb Flattens Stuyvesant Investors

The CRE default train is picking up speed. A huge and storied residential development in the Big Apple just got handed to its creditors (i.e., the Greater Fools) via jingle mail:


Tishman Speyer Properties LP and BlackRock Inc. will cede control of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village to lenders after the value of Manhattan’s largest housing complex fell and they were prevented from raising rents.
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Oh, BTW, CalPERS was one of the biggest investors in this property's mortgages. Remember their plan to double-down on illiquid assets? Great idea. :-( BOHICA, California taxpayers, because you'll get the bill to fill CalPERS' smoking holes.

Stuff like this is making me happy that I bought puts against IYR, a real estate ETF.