Feedback: Banks' CRE Losses Overstated

Re "CRE Shackles Smaller Banks, But the Big Ones Escape," Feb. 12] The top 50 banks' exposure to the commercial real estate asset class is around $700 billion in total and accounts for the vast majority of outstandings. [The Congressional Oversight Panel's estimate of] $300 billion in losses [in coming years] implies a 42% overall loss rate, which just isn't plausible.