House owners of empty workplace buildings may ultimately fail, cease making funds and add drama to massive U.S. life and annuity issuers’ quarterly monetary experiences. At this level, although, there’s not a lot actual estate-related drama.

Weak spot within the business actual property sector is “an enormous danger throughout the monetary markets,” Anika Getubig, an S&P director, stated Wednesday throughout an S&P International Rankings replace on the fourth quarter of 2023.

Life and annuity issuers look as in the event that they’re managing that danger effectively, she stated.

At Morgan Stanley, a workforce of analysts led by Bob Jian Huang got here to the identical conclusion of their newest quarterly life and annuity sector evaluation.

“CRE publicity inside life insurers investments have held up higher than anticipated all year long,” the analysts wrote of their evaluation of the fourth quarter.

What it means: The issuers backing purchasers’ life insurance coverage insurance policies and annuity contracts proceed to carry out effectively.

The backdrop: Life insurers have invested about 10% of their $5 trillion in property in business mortgages, with a few of these property in workplace constructing mortgages and securities backed by them.