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SL Green has been removed as manager of Worldwide Plaza in New York City amid an ongoing foreclosure proceeding involving the office property.
A market roundup covering collateralized loan obligation trends, lender activity for the coming year, and a $1B real estate project in Florida.
The Trepp CMBS special servicing overall rate declined 11 basis points in July to 11.09%, partially reversing the increases of recent months. However, decreases in special servicing rates were not seen across the board in all property types. The improvement was led by office, the largest special servicing category,…
A $396 million commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan secured by 85 10th Avenue, a 633,000-square-foot office property in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, has been sent to special servicing due to imminent maturity default, according to an alert from Morningstar Credit. 85 10th Avenue is owned jointly…
Benefit Street Partners completed a $1 billion commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation, marking activity in a historically quiet capital markets segment.
Rising 10-year Treasury yields and a recognition that relief isn't coming are helping push deals in the CMBS market across the finish line.
Dutch pension fund PGGM has committed capital to a €1.1 billion credit risk transfer transaction involving Polish commercial real estate assets.
Hudson Pacific and Blackstone's $1.1B loan heads to special servicing, with agreed extensions amid Netflix leasing impact.
A $506 million CMBS backed by New York rent-stabilized apartments faces foreclosure as Mayor Mamdani's rent freeze threatens to deepen bondholder losses. The post New York Rent Freeze Deepens CMBS Losses on Stabilized Housing Portfolio appeared first on Propmodo .
Investors face $80M losses as a 3,500-unit NYC rent-stabilized portfolio struggles.
An iconic office complex in the City of Bridges has hit a dead end. The $92 million commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan secured by Gateway Center, an iconic office complex in Downtown Pittsburgh, has liquidated via a note sale, resulting in a $64.8 million loss to the CMBS trust, according to an alert…
The valuation of an underperforming Delaware County mall sank this month after the borrowers missed their payoff date last year. Springfield Mall at 1250 Baltimore Pike was valued at just $30M in a recent appraisal, according to CMBS monitoring platform...
Keller Investment Properties will refinance a 13-property portfolio through a $718.5 million CMBS loan. Six are in Utah, four in Nevada and three in Arizona. Multihousing News reports that a Nomura affiliate will provide a two-year, floating-rate, interest-only loan. Approximately $696.3 million will refinance…
As it approaches its first birthday, Nomura Securities’ commercial real estate lending platform has an extra reason to celebrate: It just sealed the largest sole-bank single-asset, single-borrower commercial mortgage-backed securities (SASB CMBS) deal in almost two years. The $719 million KELR 2026-MF deal is…
A private-label securitization closed by Systima Capital Management for a portfolio of nearly 1,300 subsided apartments underscores the potential for use of the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market in affordable housing deals. Systima closed the $153 million tax-exempt affordable housing bond deal…
Trepp Inc. has reported mixed data on CMBS distress levels lately. The volume of private-label securitized loans that are at least 30 days late declined by $3.49 billion, or 3.7%, in June. Conversely, while the volume of CMBS delinquencies shrunk to $43.98 billion, or 7.35% of the overall CMBS universe, the volume…
Article reports on banks' strategies for reducing exposure to distressed commercial real estate loans through creative asset management and portfolio repositioning.
MSCI's RCA Commercial Property Price Index fell 11.2% year-over-year in May, reflecting continued annual declines across all major commercial real estate sectors.
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Commercial Real Estate Direct reports on first-half domestic private-label CMBS issuance volume and year-over-year growth trends.
Commercial Real Estate Direct reports on improving delinquency rates across CMBS pools for June.
Airbnb has acquired a Manhattan office property for $81.5 million.
Commercial mortgage-backed securities defeasance transactions are accelerating amid stabilizing interest rate environment and improved investor confidence.
CBRE reports on rising commercial real estate lending activity and non-agency deal volume in the first quarter of 2025 despite ongoing market volatility.
Commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance surged 110% in the first quarter of 2025, with single-asset/single-borrower deals dominating the market activity.
This is a news report from Commercial Observer published in July 2026 documenting Citibank's pricing of a commercial mortgage-backed securities conduit deal described as the largest single bank-contributed, multi-property CMBS transaction since the Global Financial Crisis. The report covers capital markets activity in the CMBS sector at the national level.
This is a news announcement from CRED iQ published on July 16, 2026, regarding the appointment of Liam Mulcahy to the position of Senior Product Manager for CRE Data & Applied AI. The announcement is categorized within the CMBS and debt-financing sectors and covers national United States operations.
The Trepp CMBS special servicing rate increased by 34 basis points in June to 11.20%, reversing May’s decline. Special servicing rates increased in four of the six major property types in June, reported Trepp. Lodging posted the largest increase, rising 44 bps to 8.89%, and office climbed 36 bps to 17.11%, also led…
The CRE Finance Council (CREFC) said Monday its Second-Quarter 2026 (2Q26) Board of Governors (BOG) Sentiment Index rose 0.9% to 101.0 from 100.1 in the previous quarter, holding near the survey’s 2017 baseline of 100.0 after the prior quarter’s 20.2% decline. However, Beneath the modest headline move, results were…
More commercial real estate owners, including RXR and SL Green, are establishing special servicing platforms to manage distressed CMBS loans, leveraging their operational expertise in asset resolution while creating potential conflicts of interest when servicing loans of competitors. Rating agencies and pooling and servicing agreements provide oversight to mitigate conflicts, though Fitch has previously flagged concerns about affiliate influence, and industry experts remain divided on whether these arrangements ultimately benefit or harm bondholders despite structural post-2008 protections limiting special servicers' ability to acquire distressed assets.
Jemal Equities secured a $27 million commercial mortgage-backed securities loan from Citibank for the refinancing of 1750 H Street NW in Washington, D.C., arranged by Meridian Capital Group. The 123,000-square-foot office building was purchased by Jemal in July 2025 for $28.5 million when it was nearly vacant, and the new permanent debt replaced the initial bridge financing after the property achieved significant leasing momentum within a single year.
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The Fed has released the minutes of its June 2026 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, the detailed record of the committee’s discussion that arrives three weeks after each decision. Chair Warsh has moved away from forward guidance, so markets get fewer signals about the Fed’s thinking in real time, and that…
Fitch Ratings affirmed credit ratings for AP WIP Holdings 2022-1, a structured finance transaction.
Fitch Ratings issued a presale rating announcement for LBA Trust 2026-LBA6, a structured finance securitization transaction.
Fitch Ratings affirmed expected credit ratings across eight tranches of a structured finance securitization vehicle.
Fitch Ratings assigned expected ratings to a structured finance vehicle, Basalt 2026-1 DE Designated Activity Company.
Fitch Ratings announced rating actions on three U.S. CMBS transactions from 2014 vintage.
Fitch Ratings announced credit rating upgrades across 14 classes in mortgage-backed securities from Freddie Mac 2016 and 2018 vintage securitizations.
Fitch Ratings affirmed ratings on two securitized trust vehicles: BX 2021-21M and STWD Trust 2021-LIH, indicating continued credit quality in the underlying portfolios.
Fitch Ratings released credit rating actions on Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities from 2017 vintages, upgrading 26 classes and affirming 95 classes across six transactions.
Fitch Ratings issued a presale on a securitization involving EQT Trust 2026-IND1.
Morningstar DBRS downgraded credit ratings on eight classes of Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates from GS Mortgage Securities Corporation Trust 2019-GC40.
Morningstar DBRS confirmed credit ratings on five classes of CMBS issued by Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2015-GC27 and upgraded one class trend to stable from negative.
Morningstar DBRS downgraded credit ratings on five classes of Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2019-B12.
Morningstar DBRS issued credit rating confirmations on eight classes of multifamily mortgage-backed certificates in the AXMF Re-REMIC Trust 2025-SBRR1 securitization.
Morningstar DBRS confirmed credit ratings on eight classes of multifamily mortgage-backed securities issued by AXMF Re-REMIC Trust.
Fitch Ratings downgraded CSAIL 2020-C19 securities and assigned negative outlooks to eight classes in the securitization.
Fitch Ratings assigned final ratings to a Wells Fargo-sponsored commercial mortgage-backed securities trust.
Fitch Ratings upgraded the outlook for REAL-T 2015-1 to stable, indicating improved credit positioning in this real estate securitization.
Fitch Ratings issued final credit ratings for ACREC 2026-FL5 LLC, a structured finance transaction.
Fitch Ratings affirmed BrightSpire's commercial special servicer rating, reflecting the servicer's standing in structured finance operations.
Fitch Ratings assigned expected ratings to a European loan conduit securitization vehicle.
Fitch Ratings downgraded three classes of a real estate securitization and assigned negative outlooks to the affected tranches.