TPG Real Estate Finance Trust is one of several nonbank property lenders feeling the squeeze as markets fall.
Real estate investment trusts, hedge funds and private equity firms that have issued billions in construction loans, mortgages and bonds backed by property debt are now facing a cash crunch, the Wall Street Journal reports.
TPG is delaying its first-quarter dividend payments in preparation for needing additional cash collateral, but the company noted in a statement that there’s “no certainty” it can continue paying, according to the Journal.
The Angelo, Gordon & Co.-managed AG Mortgage Investment Trust said last Friday that it had “received an unusually high number of margin calls from financing counterparties” and admitted to missing some of the deadlines.
Nonbank lenders stepped into the commercial real estate space after banks withdrew following the 2008 crash, but many funded deals using bank debt facilities secured by corporate guarantees, loans and bond holdings.
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