The collapse last year of three US regional lenders left financial institutions and regulators scrambling to prevent a wider banking crisis. Investors are worried again, and this time the risk is coming from commercial real estate.
US banks hold about $2.7 trillion in commercial real-estate loans.The majority of that, about 80 per cent, according to Goldman Sachs economists, is held by smaller, regional banks the ones that the US government hasn't classified as "too .