Rosner — who describes CMBS as a market that “people were nervous about” — is focused on “very special properties that are super desirable”. It pays to be picky as an across-the-board recovery in offices is unlikely with remote work persisting, she told the Bloomberg Intelligence Credit Edge podcast.
A wall of debt, a financing crunch and plummeting building values are looming over commercial real estate, menacing investors and banks, but Goldman Sachs Asset Management is a buyer.
“Just because there are some problem properties with very high vacancies and a problem with their cost of capital or the cost of debt — that doesn’t mean that the entire asset class has something wrong with it,” said Lindsay Rosner, head of multisector investing at the firm. “What we’ve been able to do is find a lot of opportunities in commercial mortgage-backed securities.”
