Valuation Issues for an Evolving Housing Market

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There are many reasons for the most recent recession and collapse of the commercial real estate [CRE] market. It was a “perfect storm” for the financial markets that were awash in cash that had to go somewhere. Wall Street banks, their clients, and their regulators failed to understand that they were selling a high-risk, poorly secured, and opaque investment opportunity that nobody really understood, and which was not fully secured by identifiable assets that could be foreclosed. Many were blinded by, and focused primarily on, the huge fees being earned in selling bundles of collateralized mortgages backed by assets that were far less credit worthy than the instrument being peddled ever disclosed.

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