Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Investment Officer Gregory McGreevey, who slashed commercial-property holdings during the market slump, is betting on a rebound by expanding the insurer’s real-estate financing.
“The real-estate market in total has likely bottomed in terms of its price declines,” McGreevey said of commercial property in an interview at Bloomberg headquarters in New York yesterday. “Most of our opportunities are in direct whole-loan investments where we can find good properties at attractive prices.”
So, just to be clear, we sold CMBS bonds to these jokers at the peak - the worst of the worst. If it was a bunch of small balance dentists' offices with their lake house as part of the collateral, The Hartford ate it up. Then they sold at the trough, again, to me, just in a different chair. Now, once prices have recovered (but many think the sector still has a way to go), they're getting long again.
I'm actually going to stop talking and put together a BWIC of overpriced AJs to send their way right now...
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