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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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Morningstar Credit Ratings and DBRS have announced the appointment of the heads of their combined RMBS and CMBS groups following Morningstar’s acquisition of its Canadian rival in May. -
A loan on the Westfield Stratford shopping centre in East London, last securitized in a 2014 CMBS, is being refinanced, with BNP Paribas and HSBC announced as arrangers for a new £750m ($940m) dual tranche offering.
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Greencoat Investment, a vehicle associated with Rizwan Hussain's attempts to take control of a pre-crisis CMBS, was dealt a blow this week when a court rejected its application to put the deal into administration. The move, for now, puts paid to efforts to persuade bondholders to tender their holdings.
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Citi is preparing to issue CGCMT 2019-PRM, a $278m single borrower CMBS deal backed by a portfolio of self-storage properties.
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German heat exchanger firm Galapagos, which is deep in negotiations over a debt restructuring, accidentally paid a coupon to bondholders last month, despite a deal with secured creditors to waive the payment ahead of a bid to tackle its debt load. Meanwhile, unsecured bondholders rejected proposals from the company and its secured creditors, leading to a threat from Galapagos that the bondholders will be wiped out.
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The European pipeline has begun to bulge with a volley of new deals entering the market in the two weeks following the IMN/Afme Global ABS conference in Barcelona, with UK and Dutch RMBS, German ABS, and UK SMEs all on offer.
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The issuer of the long-troubled synthetic CMBS Juno (Eclipse 2007–2) missed a deadline for submitting its 2017 financial statements and its annual return last Friday. This means it risks being struck off the register of Ireland’s companies and having its remaining assets transferred to the government.
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European securitization investors this week are pricing longer duration deals tighter than earlier in the year, made comfortable by the ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) label. This is being demonstrated on Tuesday by Argenta Spaarbank's Green Apple RMBS deal.
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There is a need for differentiation in pricing between seasoned commercial real estate CLO managers and less experienced issuers, speakers said at a CRE Finance Council conference panel on Tuesday.
