The future of the CMBS market in Europe

Much has been written and speculated about the role of structured finance instruments and especially mortgage backed securities, including CMBS, in the current financial crisis.

But what really went wrong and how should it be addressed to prevent a repetition in future? Jenniffer Solomon recently surveyed 136 respondents drawn from issuers, investors and service providers supporting the CMBS "industry" and her report provides some unique insights into the market view of the crisis.

The results together with her analysis are in a presentation here...

In addition, the German paper Immobilienzeitung published an article about the survey on November 19 2009. The article can be found here but you'll need to pay to download it.