Credit risk is the oldest bank and the risk is best known. The credit risk is the risk to earnings or capital resulting from the failure of a borrower under the terms of a contract with the bank not to comply or not to perform as agreed. Soon the credit risk of a situation, if a borrower is unable or unwilling to repay a loan to a lender. There may be two reasons for this failure: First, the borrower can not manage his / her specific business risks, and second, the borrower has been dishonest.
Given the nature of most commercial real estate markets, the financing of commercial real estate subject to an unusually high degree of credit risk. The limited supply of land in an area economically attractive, exceptionally long service life of fixed assets, long lead times for the development and construction of major projects required, and a high sensitivity, the interest was commercial real estate markets has a long history of extreme cyclical fluctuations and volatility . In connection with the commercial real estate loans, the credit risk of the bank by one or more of the following risks that threaten the borrower to be affected:
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