CMBS
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Trafford Centre CMBS tapped
Intu Properties has tapped its Trafford Centre Finance CMBS, with the launch of £110m additional class A, B and D notes. The proceeds will be used to provide funds for the firm's pipeline of active management projects and major extensions.
The transaction is secured by intu Trafford Centre, the prime super-regional shopping centre near Manchester. The notes, which have an .......
News Round-up 20 February 2014
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NPL sales gather pace
The availability of debt finance for European commercial real estate rose dramatically last year and the pace of non-performing loan sales looks set to increase in 2014. European securitisation analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch expect a conservative portion of the resulting transaction volume to fuel future CMBS issuance.
CBRE last month put the total volume of outstanding CRE .......
News Round-up 19 February 2014
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Supply squeeze
Spread compression to drive non-core issuance
A supply squeeze in European ABS is driving spread compression across asset classes and between senior and junior tranches. Against this backdrop, non-senior and non-core issuance is expected to pick up.
Rob Ford, ABS portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management, questions whether there is room for European ABS spreads to move any tighter at the top end of the market. .......
News Analysis 19 February 2014
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Orrick adds CMBS pair
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has appointed William Cullen and Janet Barbiere as partners in its structured finance group in New York. The pair specialise in CMBS.
Cullen and Barbiere both worked at Kaye Scholer and before that at Thacher Proffitt & Wood and at Sidley Austin. They frequently act as CMBS issuer and underwriter counsel for investment banks and also .......
Job Swaps 19 February 2014
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CMBS production pro appointed
Matt Stevens has joined the production team at Greystone as a director. He will focus on origination for debt financing solutions across Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, CMBS and Greystone's proprietary lending platforms.
Stevens has over 15 years of commercial lending and banking experience and will report to Rick Wolf. He was previously at Alliant/ACRE Capital and has also worked .......
Job Swaps 19 February 2014
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LDP11 bucks liquidation trend
Remittances have been reported for three more US CMBS with exposure to the CWCapital bulk sale - BACM 2007-1, JPMCC 2007-LDP11 and WBCMT 2006-C28. LDP11 appears to have bucked the trend for net sales proceeds to exceed recent appraisal values.
Seven JPMCC 2007-LDP11 loans totalling US$323m were liquidated at a weighted average loss severity of 73%, which is 10% higher .......
News Round-up 19 February 2014
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Further positive CWCap outcomes
The February remittance for the MLCFC 2007-5 CMBS recorded US$192m of liquidations across 10 properties listed in the CWCapital bulk sale. The dispositions resulted in US$103.7m of realised losses, implying a 54% severity, according to CMBS analysts at Barclays Capital.
The liquidations pushed losses up to the F tranche of the transaction. After including US$67m of scheduled pay-downs, incoming principal .......
News Round-up 17 February 2014
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CMBS commutations announced
MBIA Insurance Corp has disclosed that it commuted policies insuring approximately US$3bn of CMBS exposure, in which the reference CMBS were originally rated single-A, for a cost in excess of the third-quarter statutory loss reserve. The monoline says it now has approximately US$760m of CMBS exposure remaining, in which the reference obligations were originally rated triple-B, of which approximately US$391m .......
News Round-up 17 February 2014
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Late-pays drop on bulk sales
US CMBS delinquencies declined by 9bp in January to 5.89%, from 5.98% a month earlier. Late-pays are poised to fall by approximately 40bp over the next two months, however, due to CWCapital bulk asset sales being finalised and reflected in the February and March remittances. These distressed sales will likely bring the overall rate to below 5.5% by the end .......
News Round-up 17 February 2014
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Best practices
Noteholder communications, technology and clearing systems discussed
Participants in SCI's latest corporate trust roundtable met in December to discuss post-closing best practices and noteholder communications. Technology and documentation challenges, as well as improvements to the clearing systems were among the topics covered. (The full SCI Corporate Trust Roundtable discussion can be downloaded here.)
Corinne Smith, SCI: Investor concern over securitisation noteholder communications is increasing. I .......
News Analysis 13 February 2014
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Barbelled resolutions for GG10
The February remit for GSMS 2007-GG10 shows that 16 CMBS loans totalling US$592.6m were liquidated in the CWCapital auction at a weighted average loss severity of 51.3%. While this outcome is better than expected, the sale appears to have been barbelled, with some properties not commanding as high a price as the last appraisal value would suggest.
"The net proceeds .......
News Round-up 13 February 2014
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Net loss anticipated for Beacon Seattle
BACM 2007-2 has become the first CMBS containing a pari passu part of the US$1.3bn Beacon Seattle & DC Portfolio loan to report a pay-down this month. The move follows the recent sale of the Plaza Center & US Bank Plaza buildings for US$186.5m (see SCI's CMBS loan events database).
As well as BACM 2007-2, the Beacon Seattle portfolio is .......
News Round-up 12 February 2014
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Legacy lists lead CMBS supply
Generic US CMBS spreads were unchanged yesterday as BWIC volume climbed to US$260m. SCI's PriceABS data shows supply concentrated on legacy and agency bonds, with 2.0 tranches harder to come by.
Covers were rare for 2005-vintage paper, although the CGCMT 2005-C3 AJ tranche traded in the high-200s. The tranche had previously been covered at 275 on 24 January .......
Market Reports 12 February 2014
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Liquidation proceeds hit BACM 2008-1
The February remit report for BACM 2008-1 shows that proceeds from the sale of a property identified as part of the CWCapital auction have been applied to the CMBS trust. Overall a total of US$76.2m of principal proceeds was received for the transaction, resulting in the full pay-off of the A2 class and a US$52.4m payment to the A3s, reducing .......
News Round-up 11 February 2014
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CMBS note sales scheduled
An estimated US$465m of delinquent CMBS loans are due for sale via Auction.com next month. JPMCC 2007-LDPX (serviced by C-III) has the largest exposure to the sale, according to Barclays Capital figures, with US$136m of assets out for the bid.
The deal with the second largest exposure - at US$65m - is CSFB 2002-CP5 (serviced by LNR), representing a majority .......
News Round-up 11 February 2014
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CMBS vet takes leadership role
Situs has named md Andrew Serling as head of its registered investment advisor, Ranieri Partners Asset Management. He will provide strategic direction for Ranieri and present Situs with business development opportunities as they pertain to CMBS bond investors.
Serling has more than 20 years of experience in real estate capital markets and investments and has previously worked at Berkadia Commercial .......
Job Swaps 11 February 2014
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Stable outlook for Canadian SF
S&P expects Canadian consumer ABS credit ratings to remain stable in 2014, despite the likelihood of moderate deterioration in underlying collateral performance. The agency believes that new issuers will balance the lack of upcoming maturities from existing ABS issuers, with total issuance volume remaining at around C$11.5bn - split among credit card ABS (C$6bn), auto and equipment ABS (C$2bn), CMBS .......
News Round-up 10 February 2014
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Legacy, new issue metrics diverging
Legacy US CMBS market metrics continued improving last quarter, while several key indicators for new issuance trended negatively, according to Fitch's latest quarterly index for the sector. CMBS delinquencies fell by nearly 60bp last quarter and two percentage points on the year.
"The continued steady pace of loan resolutions should position CMBS delinquencies to finish 2014 below 4%," comments Fitch .......
News Round-up 7 February 2014
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Servicer rankings released
The Mortgage Bankers Association has released its year-end ranking of commercial and multifamily mortgage servicer volumes. At the top of the list as of 31 December is Wells Fargo, with US$434.4bn in US master and primary servicing, followed by PNC Real Estate/Midland Loan Services with US$369.6bn, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage with US$235.4bn, KeyBank National Association with US$169.7bn and GEMSA Loan Services .......
News Round-up 7 February 2014
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Lack of supply hits Euro CMBS
Activity has slowed in the European secondary CMBS market as paper has become harder to come by. While demand remains strong and a number of BWICs have circulated, the search for supply has led to the return of OWICs in the market.
"There has been less buying interest from clients this week and the market has been quieter. We have .......
Market Reports 7 February 2014
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MS CMBS vet moves on
Jim Chung has joined Bridge Investment Group Partners as cio for the ROC Debt Strategies Fund. He is based in New York and will focus on CMBS, having previously spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley.
....... Job Swaps 7 February 2014