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Fed's Liquidity Rain Dance May Reduce CRE Loan Rates

Published Thursday, December 13, 2007

Commercial real estate investors should see lending rates drop heading into 2008 thanks to a triple play of actions by the Federal Reserve this week intended to stimulate lending and inject credit into the economy. Few market observers were surprised on Dec. 11 when the Federal Open Market Committee lowered its target for the Fed funds rate, which banks use to calculate overnight interest, by a quarter point to 4.25%. The Fed didn’t stop there, however, and also reduced its target for the discount rate, which the Fed charges on loans to banks, by 25 basis points to ...

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