Kline Loan Match™ debuts in January, 2012, as the propriety loan sales and marketing platform for RW Kline Companies.  After privately selling more than 400 CRE loans over the past few years, RW Kline and Companies has entered the public CRE loan sales arena.  Loan sellers and buyers can depend on a loan management system which is secure and compliant with all applicable regulatory guidelines, rules and regulations.  Kline Loan Match™ is an easy-to-access, on line platform aimed at matching loan sellers and buyers nationwide while providing personalized management of the players and the platform.

Lenders holding CRE loans still face strong, lasting headwinds from an economy which has perhaps bottomed but continues to demonstrate insufficient growth.  As this trend is expected to continue for a number of years, Kline Loan Match ™ is poised to provide lenders and buyers a vehicle to sort through the CRE loan chaos.

Recoveries in employment levels and the housing market remain two of the most important requirements of an economic recovery in the US.  2012 could be the fourth year in a row with an unemployment rate exceeding 9%, the worst performance of the postwar era.  “There are currently 25 million Americans looking for fulltime work.  And while the forecast calls for job growth on the order of 150,000 per month, total payroll employment will still be three million jobs below the 2007 peak and real personal income is still below the level reached in 2008¹”.

Prominent 2012 influences expected to produce a longer recovery of the CRE market²:
•    Renewed worries about European sovereign debt
•    Expected continuation of political ineptness regarding the US budget deficit
•    Deterioration in consumer confidence
•    Slowdown in real income growth
•    Inability of consumers to spend as they did during the holiday months

For 2012, vacancy rates in the office, industrial, retail and multi-family sectors are expected to decline from their current levels by less than 1.0 percent.  Additionally, the cost to build remains higher than the cost to purchase in a majority of markets.³

The economic landscape appears to offer a diminishing opportunity for a CRE recovery in the short to medium time frame.  Kline Loan Match™ is prepared to assist CRE loan sellers and buyers as we negotiate the future. 

David Weir, 480-443-3600(O), 602-758-7589(M) or dweir@rwkline.com

¹David Shulman UCLA Anderson Forecast Senior Economist
²Wells Fargo Securities Economic Group
³NAR Commercial Real Estate Outlook