This post is part of a series titled “Supervising Our Nation’s Financial Institutions.”
A variety of factors-rising interest rates, persistent inflation, concerns about a potential recession and pandemic-related changes in where people work-have prompted concerns about the health of commercial real estate (CRE) properties and the bank loans that support them. Supervisors and economists at the Federal Reserve actively monitor CRE market conditions and the CRE loan portfolios of the banks it supervises.