Lisa Pendergast, Executive Director of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC), joins Sam Chandan to discuss  conditions in the commercial lending market, disparities in access to financing across property types, the rising volume of forbearance requests, positive signs for the market's capacity for new CMBS deal activity, and the role of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) and other interventions in bolstering liquidity.

Information about CREFC, the Borrower's Guide for Dealing with CMBS Servicers, and the Guide to COVID-19 Relief Programs are available at crefc.org.

For more information about the Urban Lab podcast and Dr. Sam Chandan, please visit http://www.samchandan.com/urbanlab and the NYU Urban Lab at the NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate at http://sps.nyu.edu/schack.