CMBS

  • FVO purchases jump

    Fitch reports a significant increase in the number of defaulted US CMBS loan purchases through fair value options (FVOs) since it last examined such activity in 2011. In the five-year period beginning in 2012, 79 FVOs were exercised, versus the 11 FVOs exercised in the 10-year period that the agency previously studied from 2001 to 2011.

    Fitch found that the .......

    News Round-up 9 January 2017

  • Strong apartment NOI growth

    Moody's has updated its NOI index for properties backing CMBS conduit loans between 2004 and 2015. The US national all-property NOI composite index surpassed its 2008 peak in 2015 by 1.4%, largely driven by strong apartment performance.

    Apartment NOI rose 26% in the five years to end-2015. Core commercial NOI rose 3.1% and all core commercial property sectors, except suburban .......

    News Round-up 6 January 2017

  • Macy's, Sears closures affect CMBS

    Macy's has revealed a list of 68 stores that it will close in the near term, while Sears has announced it will close 150 Sears and K-Mart stores. There are CMBS implications for both.

    Of the 68 Macy's locations, 63 will be closed in early spring and two in mid-2017. There is CMBS exposure for 31 loans totalling US$3.4bn. Of this .......

    News 6 January 2017

  • CMBS credit metrics 'mixed'

    US conduit/fusion CMBS credit metrics were mostly steady in the final quarter of 2016, although S&P warns that credit enhancement levels are still too low. Over the entire year, there was some deterioration relative to 2013 and 2014.

    There were eight new collateral pools reviewed by S&P in 4Q16, with average DSCR of 1.75x compared to 1.8x in 3Q16. The .......

    News Round-up 6 January 2017

  • Student housing CMBS examined

    LTV and DSCR metrics weakened marginally for student housing loans securitised in new issue US CMBS in 2016, reports Kroll Bond Rating Agency. CMBS deals have also begun to include more student assets with only limited operating history, while a number of loans provide grounds for concern.

    The LTV ratio for student housing has increased for three consecutive years. Kroll .......

    News Round-up 6 January 2017

  • Issuance estimates revised upwards

    Most structured finance markets and their credit conditions seem favourable and in some cases ideal going into 2017, according to S&P's 2017 outlook. The agency has therefore increased its issuance forecast since October, projecting US$365bn-US$375bn total issuance for the US, with China expected to see the second largest issuance at an estimated US$140bn. The global total for 2017 is expected .......

    News Round-up 5 January 2017

  • Loss severities down

    US CMBS disposition volume last month dropped to US$595.3m across 54 loans, down from November's total of US$671m across 58 loans, according to Trepp. Overall loss severity for December fell by 13bp to 43.05%, due to several large retail notes that were resolved with very minor losses.

    Six conduit loans with a combined remaining balance of US$60m suffered losses of .......

    News Round-up 5 January 2017

  • CMBS delinquencies climb again

    The Trepp US CMBS delinquency rate hit its highest level in 14 months in December. The rate has increased in nine of the last 10 months and is now 5.23%, an increase of 20bp from November.

    Last year began with a 102bp drop in the delinquency rate over the first two months, but those early decreases have now been wiped .......

    News Round-up 4 January 2017

  • Law firm nabs SF vet

    Norton Rose Fulbright has hired Patrick Dolan as a partner to the firm, joining from Dechert. He focuses his practice on ABS and MBS - often with innovative structures - representing warehouse lenders, issuers, underwriters, investors and multi-seller commercial paper conduits. Dolan has worked on financings and securitisations of various asset types, including PACE bonds, tax liens, structured settlements, marketplace .......

    Job Swaps 4 January 2017

  • Firm acquires NPL portfolio

    Bain Capital Credit has acquired a €364m portfolio of Spanish non-performing loans. It comprises defaulted first lien Spanish loans to hotel operators, real estate developers, retail centres and residential real estate assets.

    Fabio Longo, md and head of Bain Capital Credit's European NPL and real estate business, says: "We continue to find Spain one of the most attractive markets in .......

    News Round-up 3 January 2017

  • Opus completes multifamily Freddie deal

    Opus Bank has securitised US$509m of its multifamily loans through a Freddie Mac-sponsored 'Q-deal' securitisation. One class of Freddie-guaranteed notes was issued and purchased by Opus.

    Opus says the deal is "a novel transaction that reduces Opus' commercial real estate concentration, lowers its risk weighted assets, increases its total risk-based capital ratio, lowers its loan-to-deposit ratio and improves its liquidity". .......

    News Round-up 3 January 2017

  • Lack of occupancy triggers EOD

    The 129-131 Greene Street loan, securitised in GSMS 2014-GC26, has been transferred to special servicing due to an event of default caused by a tenant trigger event. Fitch designated the asset as a loan of concern last month.

    129-131 Greene Street is secured by a two-storey condo in New York City, 100% leased to a Google subsidiary on a 10-year triple-net .......

    News Round-up 23 December 2016

  • Property prospects

    Hiring remains flat, but CMBS up-tick possible

    CMBS could provide a hiring boost in the US in 2017, while structured finance recruitment is likely to remain mostly flat globally. In the UK, senior hires are few and far between, but banks are still recruiting junior executives to develop smaller structuring teams.

    Chadrin Dean, president and managing partner for Sandford Rose Associates,
    Integrated Management, says that over the last .......

    News Analysis 23 December 2016

  • IRT internalisation completed

    RAIT Financial Trust has completed its transaction to internalise the management of Independence Realty Trust (IRT), following the sale of Independence Realty Advisors and certain assets of Jupiter Communities to IRT for US$43m (SCI passim). IRT has also repurchased all 7.3m shares of IRT common stock owned by certain RAIT subsidiaries for US$62.2m.

    As a result of the internalisation of .......

    Job Swaps 22 December 2016

  • Class X appeal dismissed

    The English Court of Appeal has reached the same conclusion regarding the Titan CMBS class X claim as the High Court in April (SCI passim). Accordingly, the appeal by Credit Suisse Asset Management - the class X noteholder in the TITN 2006-1, 2006-2, 2007-2 and 2007-CT1 deals - has been dismissed.

    The class X noteholder had issued proceedings under Part .......

    News Round-up 22 December 2016

  • Mesdag retranching rated

    Fitch and S&P have rated Commercial Mortgage Funding, a securitisation of a €27.9m portion of the €370.6m Mesdag (Delta) class A notes. The transaction is financed by the issuance of three long-dated pass-through principal-only notes, due January 2035.

    The notes comprise £23.4m BBB+/BBB class As, £2.2m BBB/BB+ class Bs and £2.2m BB/BB- class Cs. Mesdag (Delta), which is due in .......

    News Round-up 22 December 2016

  • Primary servicing volumes up

    In its latest quarterly US RMBS Servicer Handbook, Fitch highlights the rapid growth of portfolios among smaller mortgage servicing companies. The portfolios of US special servicers with loan counts of less than 400,000 are growing at a faster pace than the servicing industry as a whole, according to the agency.

    These smaller special servicers reported an average year-over-year growth of .......

    News Round-up 21 December 2016

  • Mixed blessing

    Retention rules not so onerous for CRE CLOs

    Risk retention requirements raise interesting issues for the CRE CLO sector. The typical CRE CLO model already includes holding the bottom of the capital stack, but the way in which that is done may well fall foul of the regulators' rulebook.

    The fact that CRE CLO sponsors frequently retain 10% or more of the bottom of the capital stack should .......

    News Analysis 20 December 2016

  • Comfort zone

    Investor interest in SFR muted, despite potential

    A backdrop of declining homeownership in the US and a growing number of renters is driving growth in the single-family rental (SFR) securitisation market. However, limited volume, call risk and operational issues mean that the sector can be overlooked by investors, who remain more comfortable with RMBS and CMBS.

    Earlier in the year Morgan Stanley RMBS analysts highlighted that the .......

    News Analysis 16 December 2016

  • CRE group continues expansion

    Colliers International Group (CIG) and Colliers Parrish International (CPI) have signed a merger agreement. CPI is the largest independently owned Colliers affiliate in the US, providing investment sales, lease brokerage, capital markets, valuation and advisory and also property management services.

    "Integrating CPI with our existing operations in Northern California significantly increases our scale and coverage, allowing us to seamlessly and .......

    Job Swaps 16 December 2016

  • 'Mixed effects' from rate hikes

    The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates from 0.25% to a range of 0.50%-0.75%, which will have varied implications for structured finance, according to Moody's. The rating agency adds that it expects the Fed to raise rates three more times in 2017 to 1.25%-1.50% year-end.

    Moody's comments that US consumers are generally "well-positioned to cope with rising debt expenses .......

    News Round-up 15 December 2016
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