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Single asset, single borrower deals drove the US CMBS market in 2025, particularly on New York City collateral as office attendance rose. With interest rates predicted to fall further in 2026, market participants are looking forward to a greater variety of deals on commercial real estate from other cities and sectors, writes Pooja Sarkar
The conditions are set so that 2026 promises to be even better than the already impressive 2025. A deepening of esoteric asset classes, combined with entirely new deal types, as well as more debut issuers are set to be the key themes, writes Tom Hall
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European retail landlords are facing up to potential damage of Europe's wave of second lockdowns, with many tenants continuing to ask for full rent relief despite trading for three months at least over the summer, throwing the sector's long term health into doubt. -
The European Central Bank is offering renewed support to the idea of the EU creating a ‘bad bank’ or an asset management company to manage a flood of non-performing loans engulfing European banks, fuelling expectations that this will be part of the European Commission’s forthcoming NPL strategy. Jon Hay and Owen Sanderson report.
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Bank of America, Société Générale, and BNP Paribas are arranging a multi-jurisdiction CMBS backed by a portfolio of Blackstone-owned logistics properties.
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The Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) has hired Christina Perez to its government relations team, bolstering the organization’s education and advocacy initiatives.
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Kanaal, a CMBS backed by shopping centres in the Netherlands, will skip this year’s property valuation for the largest loan, as “any valuation obtained in 2020 would not give a true representation of the market value that will be used for testing of the loan to value covenant”.
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Sage Housing, the for-profit social housing landlord owned by Blackstone, is marketing its first CMBS issue through Deutsche Bank — a sharply different approach to financing from its housing association peer group, which usually issue ultra-long secured corporate bonds rather than true securitizations.
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CMBS investors are not in favour of long term waivers for distressed transactions, and may expect the sponsor to inject additional equity into a deal in return for waiving defaults, said panellists speaking at S&P’s European Structured Finance Virtual Conference 2020.
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The coronavirus has been seen in some quarters as the final nail in the coffin for the long suffering UK retail sector. But having embraced e-commerce earlier than elsewhere, the sector may learn lessons from the crisis faster and emerge stronger, which means UK CMBS holders might not be in as bad a spot as they imagine.
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UK shopping centre owner Intu Properties has fallen into administration, throwing into question the fate of £2.5bn of CMBS notes secured by its real estate.
