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Quality Rules in Bigger Deals

October 23, 2009 – Media Mention
Real Estate New York
Banks are assuming that office rents will decrease as they decide how to underwrite loans, as opposed to assuming automatic escalations as they did in past years, Jeffrey Kaufman says. He notes that some of his clients are sprucing up Class B properties, choosing to improve their portfolios incrementally, rather than going for "the big kill," so they can ride out the current doldrums.