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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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The US commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) market has lacked the kind of extensive government support that other asset classes have received, though data shows it is experiencing difficulties. But some are optimistic that the US government will provide aid for the market in its next round of Covid-19 relief measures. -
KKR has raised a $950m fund that will invest in the lowest-rated portions of newly issued CMBS conduit transactions.
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Bank of America is offering a full capital stack CMBS deal backed by logistics properties, the first such transaction to come to market in Europe since the height of the pandemic in April.
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UK universities face financial peril. Having been shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, some risk going bust, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Meanwhile, as accommodation operators grant refunds to students who are locked out and locked down, CMBS deals backed by student accommodation may survive, if sufficient numbers return to residences when the next academic year begins. Silas Brown and Tom Brown report.
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Thompson & Knight has hired three litigation attorneys, Keith Brandofino, Maximiliano Rinaldi and David Mignardi, to bolster the commercial real estate and loan servicing business in the firm’s New York office. All three attorneys join from Kilpatrick Townsend.
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Noteholder payments have been deferred in a tranche of UK CMBS backed by university halls of residence after the accommodation operator refunded student’s their rent, putting the loan sponsor in the position of having to speculate on demand recovery following the coronavirus outbreak which saw universities shuttered.
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A group of lawmakers led by Texas Republican Van Taylor has sent a letter this week to secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, urging them to address the ‘looming crisis’ in the commercial real estate market, particularly for struggling borrowers saddled with CMBS debt.
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The Basel Committee has proposed tweaks to its securitization rules to ease non-performing loan sales — but it hasn’t gone as far as market participants would like, and has rowed back from proposals tabled by the European Banking Authority last October, which would have cut capital requirements much further.
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Thai conglomerate DTGO Corporation has injected £17.5m ($21.72m) of equity for its hotel-backed Magenta CMBS in exchange for default waivers, propping up the deal for the next six months until the Covid-19 pandemic hopefully subsides.
