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  • Freddie Mac has priced its $1.2 billion FREMF 2012-K501 Mortgage Trust, its first K-issuance of structured pass-through certificates backed solely by five-year mortgages.
  • The whole loan residential mortgage market stands to benefit from a potential transfer of liquidity from the securitization sector, where “absurdly high” Solvency II capital charges could push insurance investors away from residential mortgage-backed securities, according to London-based analysts.
  • Activity is tapering off across Europe’s securitization mart this week as the end of the quarter approaches, ratcheting down the flurry of new issues that emerged this month along with the steady flow of Bids-Wanted-In-Competition in recent weeks.
  • Demand for floating-rate covered bonds is growing in Europe, with investors said to be considering the asset class as an alternative to U.K. and Dutch residential mortgage-backed securities.
  • The continued growth of online commerce could result in prolonged retail vacancies over the next decade, which could have a negative impact on commercial mortgage-backed guarantees, according to Standard & Poor’s.
  • Spreads for commercial mortgage-backed securities will likely be more limited in the second quarter than they were earlier this year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts.
  • Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by investors charging the bank misrepresented the quality of the loans underlying the mortgage-backed securities it sold.
  • A new plan to restructure Eurohypo’s troubled Opera Finance (Uni-Invest) commercial mortgage securitization, involving an extension to the notes and an asset disposal program, is being pitched.
  • Loan maturities in German commercial mortgage-backed securities are scheduled to nearly double from EUR 8 billion ($10.6 billion) this year to EUR14 billion ($18.5 billion) in 2012, sparking a rise in property sales out of the CMBS portfolios, according to Dirk Richolt, head of German real estate finance at CBRE.