The specialized lenders known as mortgage real estate investment trusts have a prominent spot on the injured list of players in commercial real estate. Since rising rates started to weigh on real estate borrowers in early 2022, shares of two mortgage REITs— Starwood Property Trust and Blackstone Mortgage Trust —have fallen 15% and 35%, respectively.
Published: Feb. 29, 2024 at 5:31 p.m. ET Shares of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. IVR advanced 3.79% to $9.03 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP rising 0.90% to 16,091.92 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.12% to 38,996.39.
The year-end reports have come in from a cadre of lenders who hold loans on some of the more troubled kinds of commercial real estate. The December quarter wasn’t easy for mortgage real estate investment trusts like Starwood Property Trust and Blackstone Mortgage Trust . Earnings calls among the dozen or so members of this
At Friday’s price of $21.36, they’re off around 5% since his Dec. 6 critique, while many other real-estate investment trusts have risen by a like percentage in celebration of easing interest rates. Block’s claim that the Blackstone trust will cut its dividend by half—as its borrowers struggle to refinance at higher rates—has stirred the hornet’s